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COCK FIGHTING AS A PARLOR PASTIME—MISS SADIE WALKER AND HER LIVELY FRIENDS, BECOMING INFECTED .WITH THE PREVAILING MANIA FOR
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to run a pictorial paper

A MOST EXCELLENT JUDGE.

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A very sensible decision was that of the City

| Court of Norwich, Conn., recently, ac juitting cer- ,
tain persons, arraigned under quite ; ecullar cir-—
cumstances in that court, for violation of the No :

License law of the county, and very sensible were
the remarks made by Judge Kellogg upon the
occasion, ‘

The temperance fanatics of that section have
taken upon themselves the duty of securing the
enforcement of the law in question, and have
been so zealous in their self-imposed work that
their prosection of the liquor dealers has assumed
the character of persecution, So marked hasthis
become that the sympathy of the better class of
citizens, outside of the intemperate partisans of
prohibition, though at first generally in favor of
the law, has become diverted, in a large measure,
in favor of the hounded liquor dealers.

At the head of this crusade is one Hugh Mont-
gomery,a Methodist preacher. This gentleman
appears to feel that the upholding of the laws of
the Commonwealth weighs upon his shoulders,
and he is evidently imbued with the fanaticism
and intolerance that distinguished his Puritan
pulpit predecessors. Quite probably the employ-
ment of the pillory, the ear-clipping, the dungeon
or other favorite devices of his genial progenitors
for bringing those who differed with them in
opinion to a sense of the saving grace, as viewed
from a Puritanical standpoint, would be much
more to his taste in dealing with the offending
liquor men. As it is, he must be satisfied with the
enjoyment of the infliction of the very mild penal-
ties of the laws of a weak-kneed and degenerate
age, but as faras they go he is determined that
they shall be carried outtotheextremeend. With
this end in view, he is said to have estab-
lished avery effective

spy system, the
duties of his paid

informers’ in this
delectable service being to sneak about the
windows and entrances of suspected liquor
shops and, on the slightest foundation for
a presumption of a violation of the existing law
by the dealers, to bring a charge against them of
keeping ‘‘a place where it is reputed liquors are
sold.’’ In this way several persona were appre-
hended and, in the majority of cases, a conviction
secured. Asa consequence the opensaleof stimu-
lating beverages was abandoned. But this was
not enough for the so-called reverend regulator of
the habits of his fellow men. It was not sufficient
to punish for an actual infraction of the law.
Those who might even possess a disposition capa-
ble of being tempted to commit such an enormity
must be castigated, even as de facto offenders were
smitten. Open traffic in the prohibited stuff being
impossible and there being a large inquiry for
the same among those who still thirsted for it,
a new branch of trade was established by
perambulating dealers who, from bottles con-
cealed about their persons, supplied the knowing
thirsty ones at a mutually understood rendezvous.
To get at these portable bar-rooms was not so easy,
as the proprietors made it a point to deal only
with those who were “‘safe,’’ or with non-residents
ofthetown, —

In order to reach these parties, therefore, the
ministerial inquisitor hired a spy from a distant
rural town for special service in this noble work.
This individual, in his character of a rustic
stranger, solicited two persons to commit an infrac-
tion of the law by the temptation of gain, and the
supposition of the act being unattended by the
risk of discovery. Then, when he had absorbed
all the whisky he could carry with due regard to
the dignity of his position as a promoter of the
cause of temperance, he ‘‘ gave it away”’ to the
authorities, and the culprit dealers were duly
brought to the bar of justice.

The case hinged on the question whether it is
legitimate to solicit a man to break the law under
any circumstances, including even the specious,
pharisaical plea of effecting a supposed good that
should over-balance the evil done. The City
Attorney took the affirmative as was, perhaps, his
official duty in the premises: Counsel forthe de-
fense, however, arraigned both the reverend per-
secutor and his spies in fitting terms, declaring
them equal criminals with those who broke the
law. This manner of putting it was-evidently in
accord with the opinion of the great majority of
the spectators, whose sympathies were manifestly
with the defendants. In this vicw their counsel
had the still more weighty support of Judge Kel-
logg, who took strong ground against the employ-
ment by any one of what he justly termed
immoral means in the detection and suppres-
sion of crime. “TI shall tolerate no such
means,’ said this most excellent Judge,
‘and shall not sanction them by the conviction of
any one who is apprehended in that way.’’ The
acquittal of the defendants, of course, followed,
and the temperance cause, as interpreted by Par-
son Montgomery and his satellites, is decidedly
below par in that region.

There isa good deal of so-called detective work

of a similar stamp being done in the name of

morality and reform, in one guise or another, in
' this and other localities, and those engaged in it,
| directly or indirectly, might obtain some new and

profitable ideas by pondering over Judge Kellogg’s

S caietieidainaemenmaniesataem enema

POLICE GAZETTE.

(Marca 15, 1879.

, View of that sortof business from the standpoint
of a lawyer and a man.

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HONOR TO WHOM IT IS DUE.

A deserved compliment was that paid by the

Grand Jury to the efficiency of Inspector Murray
‘and Captain Byrnes. The Inspector elicited from
that body a resolution applauding his efforts in
' the matter of working the Cora Sammis malprac-
tice case and tracing out the parties alleged to
_ have been implicated in the death of the unfortu-
_ hate young girl. Captain Byrnes received its ap-
' proval for his remarkable shrewdness and energy
in the clever running down of tlie desperate thieves

concerned in the audacious highway robbery of
‘ Mrs. De Bary, on Fifth Avenue, tn daylight, in the
midst of numerous passers-by.

We are glad to record this mark of appreciation
of these exceptionally worthy officers, and desire
to add our tribute to the meed of praise which is
their due, The presence of such men on the force
and the efficiency displayed by them in the cases
referred to, does much to relieve our police de-
partment from the reproach which its general
lack of efficiency has cast upon it and which
numerous glaring instances of that quality within
the past twelve months has greatly intensified.

Cock Fighting as a Parlor Pastime.
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{Subject of Mustration. |
[Special Correspondence of PoLick GAZETTE. |

NEW ORLEANS. La., March 4.—The recent grand cock
fighting tournament in this city, which was partici-
pated in by representatives of the best game blood of
the states, notably those of Kentucky and Georgia,
created an intense furore among the admirers of the
sport, and that taste prevails to a general extent alto-
gether remarkable to northern ideas, infecting all
classes alike, rich as well as poor, and the educated
and refined member of society as much as the profes-
sional sport or the rough. The respective partisans
of the “ blue grass ’’ and the ‘corn cracker’? cham-
pions were as obstinate and as enthusiastic in their
partisanship as though some great political, moral or
social issue had been the point of dispute. Being thus
the ruling topic of the hour in all grades of society it
is not singular that the female portion of the commn-
nity should be influenced by the prevailing mania,
especially as many ladies of our first families inberit
quite as strong a love of “ sport ’’ as do their brothers
and their cousins and their uncles. At all events such
was the case with a Miss Sadie Wdlker, a bright, dash-
ing and fun-loving beauty, living with her parents,
who rank among our “ F. F’s,” in an elegant house on
the Shell Road, just outside of the city. Her tastes and
views on the matter were fully shared by a choice
coterie of her female friends of congenial temperament
and similar attractions. As they could not very well
attend the “chicken disputes,’’ which were all the rage
they determined to get up a tournament of their own.
An old family servant, a faithful ancient African, who
did not know how to refuse his spoiled young mis?
tress, was induced, though under protest, to supply
the facilities for the sport in the way of the teathered
disputants. An ‘“arena’’ was improvised in their
own luxurious apartments, the inappropriateness of
the selection not being apparent to them in their in-

the close of several disputes, when they were aghast
at observing the result in the appearance of the hand-
some room which had much the likeness of the
boudoir in which the monkey and the parrot had
their celebrated misunderstanding.

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Favorites of the Pootlights,

{With Portrait. }

We present this week a handsome portrait of
Mademoiselle Margitta Roseri, premiere danseuse, and
one of the most talented ladies, in her line of busi-
ness, now before the public.

Mile. Roseri was the favorite pupil of Madame
Dominique, the distinguished maitresse de ballet, of
the Grand Opera House, Paris, under whose careful
tuition her talent was fostered. She has enjoyed a
series of brilliant successes in most of the royal
theatres abroad, extending from the Khedive’s Grand
Theatre, at Cairo, Egypt, to Covent Garden Theatre in
London.

Mlle. Roseri made her American debut at the
Academy of Music, in Philadelphia, on the night of
Decegaber 23rd, last. Of the impression she made
upon that occasion a few of the notices, from which
we extract below, which subsequently appeared re-
garding it in the prominent journals of that city, are
sufficient evidence as well as an assurance, followed
as it was by an equal sucvess, later, in Boston, of her
further triumphs in this country:

The Inquirer says: Her style is that of the most per-
fect schools of Europe, and her rendition of the ex.
tremely difficult movements, which we have never
before seen in America, are extremely graceful while
peculiarly stylish and modest. The successful debut
of Mlle. Roseri warrants the belief that her career in
America will be a brilliant one. She certainly de-
serves it.

To this the German Democrat adds: Her perform
ances, faultlessly chaste throughout, received gene
rous applause. She has evidently earned a high
reputation as “Star of the Baliet,’’ from the best
royal theatres abroad. Asa classic artist she has no
equal in America.

The Ledger, which seldom speaks enthusiastically
on such atheme, says: Her variations are eek
with exquisite grace, brilliancy and artistic skill. Her
chaste and elegantly finished style will render her a
favorite wherever she may dance.

And the Star declares that she is a finished artiste
of extraordinary ability, worthy to be classed with
auch names as Taglioni, Ellsler, or @eleste.

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Shocking Church Scandal.

BLoomine Tox. HL. March 4.—Yesterday morning

experience and in the heat of their enthusiasm until

Elder W. T. Maupin, pastor of the Christian church,
Farmer City, was accused of the crime of seduction
and adultery on a confession made by Mrs. John A.
Scott, a member.of bis church, to her husband. She
confessed that Maupin and she had been guilty of re-
peated acts of criminal intercourse, extending back
to a period of two years. Mrs. Scott, who is’ an ex-
tremely beautiful woman, was formerly Miss Belle
Evans, daughter of a prominent citizen of Farmer
tity, and was married only five weeks ago’ to J. A.
Scott. The confession has fallen like a thunder-bolt
in the community, and religious people are in a
great state of excitement. Maupin is a man of bril-
liant ability, is married and has a wife and two chil-

dren.

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“ Red Dick, the Tiger of California.’
(With Portrait. |

Under the above thrilling sobriquet, Thomas Ro-
dundo, alias Procopio, is popularly supposed to rejoice
in the romantic and exuberant region known as th:
Pacific Slope. He was a licutenant and efficient assist-
ant of Vasquez, the notorious California brigand, in
his numerous exploits of robbery and murder, and is
now wanted in San Jose, and elsewhere in the state,
for murder and other eccentricities. He has enjoyed
the distinction of figuring as the hero of: a story by
Ned Buntline. bearing the title of his cheerful
appellation of ‘Red Dick, the Tiger of California,”
published in a weekly story paper of this city, some
years since. He bears the well-carned reputation of
being a desperado of the worst sort, a man who would
stop at no crime whatever. He is described as -being
about six feet in hight, thirty-two years of age, dark
complexioned, hair, whiskers and mustache brown,
prominent nose; is round-shouldered and stoops - for-
ward in walking. When last seen he wore only a
mustache. He is of Spanish or Mexican nationality,
and is supposed to be hiding in California or on the
border. This description, in connection with the ex-
cellent portrait published ov another page, should
render the identification of this interesting citizen a
matter of little difficulty, and any information regard-
ing him will be gladly received by N. R. Harris, Sheriff
of Santa Clara county, Cal.. who cherishes a tender

concern as to his present whereabouts.
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The Fair Victim of a Sai Accident.

~~ [With Portrait. |

In Crawfordsville, Ind., on Sunday morning.
February 23rd, Benjamin and Henry Cole, members of
the Montgomery Guards, of that city, were practicing
the manual of arms in theirown home. Their arms
were breech-loading rifles. Unknown to Henry, who
supposed the guns to be unloaded, his brother had
inserted a ball cartridge in the rifle which the former
was using. Their sister, Lizzie, a beautiful girl of
eighteen, who was soon to have been married. was in
the room, preparing to go to church. At the com-
mand of ‘“ready—aim—fire,’’ Henry unsuspectingly
brought his rifle, in sport, to bear upon his sister,
pulled the trigger and sent the ball crashing through
her brain. Her death was instantaneous, and her life-
less body rolled over on the floor before the dazed
brothers could fully comprehend the reality of the
awful tragedy, believing at first that she was merely
jesting. The ball passed through her right eye with-
out wounding the lids, showing that she was looking
directly into the muzzle of the piece when it was dis-
charged. A portrait of the fair victim of. this most

deplorable casualty appears elsewhere in this issue.
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Miss Bella Killbury Female Pedestrian.

{With Portrait. }

This lady, whose portrait, in walking costume, is
given on another page, and who has-attained a promi-
nent rank among the legion of more or less successful
aspirants for fame in the same line, commenced at
five a. M. on the 3rd inst., at Duhrkoop’s Eagle Hall.
in Hoboken, N. J.. the very arduous task, for one of
her sex, of completing a distance of 400 miles in seven
days. At this writing she is still engaged in the effort
with good prospect of success. Miss Killbury
attracted considerable attention during the match
against time of. Colston, the ‘‘Big Swede,” in the
same place, noted in the preceding issue, having
walked around the track with him over 700 miles.dur-
ing his progress. For this exhibition of enduranc:
she received a gold medal from her admirers in
Hoboken. In addition to this, she has received three,
other medals for walking feats, as well as one for ex-
cellence as a swimmer, one for trapeze performance
in which she is an expert, and one for saving the lif:
of a drowning person.

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A Fifteen-Year-Old Murder.

{With Portrait.}

In June, 1864, James Ice was murdered in Marion
county, W. Va., as is alleged, by Isaac Thompson.
The murder was supposed to have been perpetrated
in cold blood to satisfy an old grudge. Thompaon i-
being tried for the crime before the U. S. District
Court, now in session at Parkersburg, W. Va.. The
case having been delayed so long between state and
United States courts, it has been a difficult matter t
get the witnesses together, who, numbering over forts
are now scattered over the country. A portrait of th
alleged murderer is given elsewhere. é

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Emmell, the Chicago Highwayman.

{With Portrait. }

In our preceding issue we gave an account of th*
capture of Albert Emmell, alias Bieter, a noted foot
pad and burglar. and leader of a gang of desperat
highway robbers in Chicago, by Ofticer Tnohy, of tha’
city, whos portrait was given in connection with 1
and who has nearly, if not quite, broken up th
dangerous band of criminals by the subsequent arr -
of several other prominent members of it. A portra:'
of the head center. Emmell. from whose preseD
Chicago is likely to be relieved for some time, is #15

in the current issue.

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The trial of MeFadden, tor the murder of Wipf
Seott, on Christmas Eve. began at Quincey fil om’
4th, Judge Sibley presiding

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Marc# 15, 1879.)

THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE.

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THE. MARSH MYSTERY,

‘A Ghastly Secret Which a Trunk Stranded
on a River Bank Revealed to
Two Workingmen.

ANOTHER HIDDEN CRIME.

The Mutilated Nude Body of an_ Unknown
Young Woman, an Abortionist’s Victim,
Jammed into the Narrow Space.

FRUITLESS CLEWS AND THEORIES

{With Illustration and Portrait. ]

Another startling sensation, partaking very much
ot the Alice Bowlsby horror and the Silver Lake
mystery, of Staten Island, hasrecently been developed
near Lynn, Mass. About five o’clock on the afternoon
of the 27th ult., Michael Dailey, a coal screener, while
at work at Newhall’s Wharf, near Fox Hill Bridge, two
miles from the city, discovered a trunk stranded on
the marsh. He at first supposed it to be a large block
of wood, and determined to haul it in for fire-wood.
What was his horror when he touched the trunk to
discover a human hand protruding ! - Paralyzed with
fear, and dreading any complications which might
follow, he called another workman, named Reardon,
to his asgiatance, and they together dragged the float-
ing mass tothe shore... The trunk was fastened by a
strong rope tied securely, around it. This they cut
asunder, and on lifting the lid a most ghastly specta-
cle was presented. ‘The body of a young woman was
found doubled up within, the legs and arms being
twisted about in every conceivable position.

THE BODY WAS ALMOST NAKED.
The only garment opon it was a nightgown, which
was of such texture as to give evidence that the
woman moved in rather good society.

The two men having hastily viewed the remains.

‘sand noted the circumstances just mentioned, gave the
alarm and the two other workmen flocked to the scene
of the horror. The police were at once notified and
the news spread over the town. The body was
brought to the station-house and an autopsy per-
formed by the Medical Examiner and Dr. Lovejoy. A
careful examination of the external appearance of the
body was first made. It was found on washing the
- face, which was covered with a heavy coating of
clotted blood, that the nose had been cut clean off,
and, as the missing member could not be found, the
fact soon became apparent that the mutilation had
been performed before the body was packed in the
truck. When the trunk was opened by the physicians
the body was found doubled up; the right leg ewas
drawn up under the body and the left drawn over the
breast; the head inclined to one side. _

The result of the examination made by the doctors
on the internal portions of the :ody showed that the
brain, heart and liver were in a healthy condition;
there was a slight congestion of the lungs; the uterus
and bowels were considerably inflamed: and death
was undoubtedly

CAUSED BY ABORTION.

It also appeared that the woman had been pregnant
about six months when the operation was performed.
There was no sign of putrefaction, and death must
have resulted about forty-eight hours previous to the
finding of the trunk. Here, then, was a terrible
tragedy enacted probably in the city limits, of which
no person knew anything, and to the perpetrators of
which there seemed to be not the slightest clue.

The discovery at once caused the most intense
horror and excitement in the vicinity, and large
crowds of people visited the spot, which is just on the
boundary line between Lynn and Saugus, on the
marshes. There is no doubt that the victim was killed
by a gang of abortionists, carried to the bridge in the
trunk and thrown off into the water below. Here the
body floated up and down with the tide until it finally

became
STRANDED ON THE MARSH.

A young man named Ciough was arrested and locked
up on a eharge of being accessory to the procurement
of an abortion. The arrest was made on arumor that
a young girl named Clarrage, with whom Clough had
been known to be intimate, was missing. It was sub-
sequently learned, however, that the girl, instead of
being a mutilated corpse, was quietly sleeping in her
bed, sound and healthy. As usual, the detectives dis-
agree. One who came down from Boston is confident
that the crime was committed in Lynn, while Lynn
and Salem detectives respectively feel equally positive
that the abortion was performed in Boston. A Salem
detective says he is convinced that the victim came
from some of the lying-in hospitals of the ‘‘Hub;”
that the trunk was carried over the marshes, as the
most unfrequented section of the country in the
vicinity of Boston, and thrown into the Saugus River.
He says the trunk will serve as a very good help to
the officers in following up the guilty parties. It is
of peculiar construction and of such shape: and style
as are not often seen. An express label was found on
the end. which had evidently not been on long, and
certain linings and wraps inside are regarded as of
material assistance. No effort is being spared to hunt

down
THE PERPETRATORS OF THE AWFUL CRIME.

The nationality of the woman is a question of some
doubt. Some think she is of Irish and some of German
parentage. It is almost certain that her nose was cut
off by a downward stroke of a razor, as her upper lip
was scarred, and the cut was very clean. It is the
opinion of Medical Examiner Pinkham that the act of
cutting off the nose was after death, as there was no
blood from the wounds; but it was probably done

before the body was packed in the trunk. The opinion

gains ground that it was cut off more particularly

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The physician who made the autopsy thinks the
woman survived the operation that caused her death
only a few hours, and that she was packed in the
trunk in the same garments she had when she died.
The body could not have been placed in the trunk
and disposed of by one person, two or more persons
must have been connected with the affair. Her mur-
derers knew that they could not obtain a permit to
place the body in a tomb, and as the frozen ground pre-
cluded the possibility of burying it, they were obliged.
in order to dispose of the body, to throw it into the
water. The constitution of the deceased was very
delicate, and in the opinion of the physician who made
the autopsy, death must have

SOON FOLLOWED THE OPERATION.
The first clew of any importance was obtained from a
man in the town of Revere, who said that at about
midnight on Tuesday, 25th, a span of clipped horses,
attached to a double sleigh, containing a magn and a
woman, was driven rapidly through Revere toward
Lynn, and that about an hour later the team was seen
returning, not having had time to reach Lynn and
return. This information was given by one William
Hosper, a clam-digger by occupation, who was stand-
ing in the horse-car station at Revere when the team
drove by, and when it returned. Hosper, who lives on
the turnpike road, near the Saugus River bridge, also
stated that he saw the trunk in which the body was
found sticking up in the bridge on Wednesday morn-
ing, 26th, and that he thought it was a piece of old
lumber. According to this story, it may be probable
that the midnight ride of the man and lady in the
sleigh may have some connection with the trunk and
crime. If Hosper really saw the trunk on Wednesday
morning, the theory of the detectives that it was
thrown into the water on Wednesday night is exploded.

During the day succeeding the discovery some 800
people called to see the remains. They came in from
the country in all sorts of vehicles, and wanted to see
the victim of man’s inhumanity, as she lay stretched
out, with nothing but a piece of cotton cloth for a
winding sheet. The little room was constantly
crowded with visitors, and yet no one recognized

THE DISFIGURED REMAINS.
Now and then one approached in fear and trembling,
thinking of some loved one and fearing to see it, but
all went away with a fervent ‘‘ thank God” on their
lips that their friend or relative did not lie beneath
that coarse sheet, spread with no loving hand by jus-
tice or charity. The mutilation of the face did not
so disfigure the countenance as to render it impossi-
ble for relatives to recognize it, and unmoved lookers-
on saw only the face of a woman of at least thirty
years of age. Marks of pain were evident upon the
wan, upturned face, and each muscle seemed to tell a
distinct and horrid story of suffering and trust dis-
appointed. There was none of that awful repose of
death—simply suffering and sorrow. The physicians
who conducted the autopsy agree that the murdered
woman must have been sick at least six weeks before
she died, and that being the case, it is little wonder
that the cold, still face seemed painfully distorted.
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Miss Ollie Gunnell, Alleged to Have Been Kidnappec.

{With Portrait. |

In Atlanta, Ga., a few weeks since, no little sensa-
tion was created by the alleged abduction of a young
girl named Ollie Gunnell, said to be about thirteen
years of age, but very well developed for her years,
and quite pretty. A Mr. William Winant and his wife
were charged with the abduction, and much indigna-
tion was exhibited against them, as they were believed
to have enticed the girl trom her home, though she
appears to have gone voluntarily. She told rather a
confused story on her return, but the sympathy of
the community was strongly in favor of the mother
of the girl. Soon after the hearing of the matter be-
fore a justice in the case of the dlleged abductors,
another sensation growing out of the affair excited
the city, in the cowhiding of Winant by Mr. Thomas
Wright, a brother of Miss Gunnell’s mother. The
assault took place on the sidewalk in front of a store,
and was witnessed by about a dozen persons, with
evident approval of the operation. Mr. Wright was
arrested, and admitted the cowhiding, claiming that
it was justifiable for reasons already known to the
public. A charge of disorderly conduct against him
was afterwards dismissed, and a state case made out
at the instance of Winant. Before a justice the de-
fense waived a preliminary examination and gave
bond for his appearance in the city court. A portrait
of the young lady, who was the more or less innocent
cause of this double sensation, appears on another
page.

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Charles 8. Pate, Freebooter and Murderer.

[With Portrait. j

We give, elsewhere, a portrait of Charles 8. Pate, a
noted freebooter, robber and murderer, of Charleston,
8. C., condemned to death on the scaffold on the first
Friday in March. Pate is, from the allegations made
against him, the most’expert horse-thief in the south.
Early in last year he joined a gang of horse-thieves in
Smoky Mountain, N. C., and for some ten months
evaded the best detective skill of the section. Finding
things becoming rather too hot for him at last, how-
ever, he went to Augusta, Ga., about the 12th of
February last. On the following day he murdered
James Hampton, patrolman of that city, and was
subsequently captured by the police of Atlanta, Ga.
Pate was born in Charleston, 8. C., in 1851. His father
having died when he was quite young, he grew up
without proper parental discipline, and gradually
became known as a desperate character. He at last
determined upon becoming a country freebooter, and
left Charleston to go to Smoky Mountain, where he
became the leader of the gang of outlaws of that
vicinity. During and under his leadership numerous
robberies and several murders were committed by the

gang. He delighted in and was expert at the feat of
stampeding a drove of horses, and, in case of an emer-
;geny, was quick to shoot and an unerring shot.
Reddy " Johson. a noted South Carolina desperado,
was ope of his intimate associates, Th:
‘at large

END OF A BLIGHTED LIFE.

Romance of the Life of a Once Famous
Courtesan, who Ran the Scale of Exis-
tence from the Career of a Petted Daugh-
ter of Luxury and Belle of Society, to
the Lowest Depths of Degradation.

PITTSBURG, Pa., March 3.—Annie Dawson, emaciated,
diseased and filth-covered, dropped dead at Claremont
Station, on Saturday morning, when being removed
from the cars to the work-house. Her history is one
of the saddest romances. Her deserted home in
Philadelphia is that of one of the wealthy iron manu-
facturers there, for she was the daughter of the well-
known Edward Y. Dawson. Fifteen years ago Annie
Dawson, then a young woman of twenty, deserted
her home and friends in the City of Brotherly Love,
and in company with a fastidious gentleman came
here to lead a life of shame. Her advent in Pittsburg
caused a ripple of excitement among the demi-monde,
for she was strikingly beautiful and possessed of an
education that was so far in advance of the accom-
plishments of her sisters in sin that from the first she
was looked up to as an Aspasia among them. The
favor with which she was received on all sides was
marked, and the very best that money could buy or
enamored humanity bestow fell at her feet. She
reigned

QUEEN OF THEM ALL.
In the wild whirl of pleasure and excitement in which
the girl had engulfed herself, home, mother, father,
sisters, brothers and all were forgotten; all that
should be near and dear were cast aside like a worn-
out toy.

As years passed, champagne and wakeful nights
told on the woman, and, inch by inch, her beauty and
power slipped from her grasp. Her wine-flushed face
became less alluring, and those who were once gallant
and ever ready and jealous to dance attendance at her
shrine, sought more attractive prey. The maison de
joie of the upper order had no further use for the
waning belle, and, at a loss to know why she was no
longer wanted, she stepped down and out.

A dozen doors of less famous bagnios stood invit-
ingly open to

THE ONCE FAMOUS ATTRACTION.

Her diamonds and silks were gone—faded away with
her beauty, as did her friends. Cheap wine and
whisky took the place of the sparkling glass, and
down, down, the woman went, and in time stepped
into the street a debauched and degraded sister, spoken
of as the once famous “ Annie ’’ by the more fortunate
syrens, but unrecognized by them, and passed as a
contaminating outcast with a shrug. With other
things she lost her name, and the vulgar called her
“Reddy.’’ The streets and low dives were now “ Red-
dy’s’’ home, and cheap rum and curses her principal
stimulants.

In the past years she has been arrested more than a
hundrad times. On Friday night, the 28th ult., she
called at the station-house and asked for lodging for
the night. The following morning she said she had
been discharged from Clermont about fiftcen days
since, and, as she had no home, she desired to be sent
back. Her wish was complied with, and a commit-
ment for sixty days was made out. She was sent up
with other prisoners, and, just when the train reached
the station at Clermont, she fell dead. Her relatives
in Philadelphia were notified, and signified their in-
tention to bury her properly.

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How a Policeman Toted His Prisoner.

{Subject of Illustration. |

A woman, who gave her name as Mrs. Bower, resid-
ing at 60 South Fifth avenue, applied on Monday, 3rd
inst., to Justice Wandell, at the Jefferson Market
Court, for a warrant for the arrest of her husband,
who, she said, had married two other women. Mrs.
Bower said that she was married eighteen years ago,
and that Bower was the father of her sixteen children,
eight of whom were alive.

Mrs. Bower No. 3 appeared, and said that she had
four children, of whom Bower was the father, and that
she knew that Mrs. Bower No. 2 had five children, and
that Bower was their father. A warrant was issued,
and Officer McSully found Bower reveling in a carouse
with five women and five men in a house at 46 Pike
street.

Bower was in the late war, and lost a leg at Gettys-
burg, and draws a pension of $75 a quarter from the
Government. Out of this pension he was treating his
companions, and when told by the officer of his errand
Bower was disinclined to go to court. Without any
more ceremony, Officer McSully seized Bower, slung
him over his back and carried him into the street.
The prisoner belabored the policeman with his wooden
leg while being carried down-stairs. Once on the
street, Bower told Officer McSully that he would have
to carry him to court. He was taken at-his word and
carried on the officer’s back to Chatham square, fol-
lowed by a large crowd.

A Third avenue car took both to Tenth street, where
Bower refused to budge, and a cart had to be pro-
cured to take him to the police court. Justice Wan-
dell, before whom he was arraigned, committed him
to prison for further examination.

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A Pedestrian’s Shooting Craze.

On the evening of the 3rd, during the attempt of
Peter Van Ness, the pedestrian, to walk 2,000 half
miles in 2,000 half hours, there was a startling inci-
dent, which came near resulting in the killing of
many persons. Van Ness had been on the track walk-
ing a half-mile each half hour during thirty days.
He had been suffering terribly during the day, and

appeared to be out of his mind. He knocked down

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ball went through the band of his silk hat. Van Ness

| then rushed into the hall, which was filled with spec-
, tators, and emptied his revolver, but the bullets did

no damage except smashing glass. The policerushed
into the building with cocked revolvers, and Van Ness
was overpowered. The crowd of women and men
rushed into the street, and intense excitement pre-
vailed. After the shooting, Van Ness fainted and lay
in a comatose state, and his trainer, being shot, could
not attend to him. Morphine, in hot drops, was ad-
ministered to the crazy pedestrian, and shortly there-
after he was brought on the track, and resumed his

task at nine o’clock. At half past nine Van Ness had

his trainer when he would arouse him, and refused to |

go on the track. Harsh treatment had to be used to
compel him to walk. His ankles and legs were badly

swollen, and he complained of a burning sensation in

levy then rushed in and Van Ness fired at him. The

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the throat and brain. After finishing his 1,71sth half
mile he shot his trainer, Joe Burgoine, in the arm, |
and then fired at every one he came in contact with. |
latter is still |] Burgoine fell. and shouted “I am shot.” Manayer

completed 1,721 half miles, and was led around the
track. He was suffering terribly.

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Serious Student Row With Wogroes.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 6.—On Wednesday
morning, about one o'clock, a negro shooting affray
took place on the avenue leading to the University of
Virginia, between three students of the University and
three colored citizens of this place, which resulted in
the serious wounding of William Gilmore, a well-
known colored shoemaker. Yesterday evening three
students of the University—H. T. Harris, of Virginia;

‘Marion D. Lytle, of Tennessee, and C. E. Barrows, of

Mississippi—voluntarily surrendered themselves to
the authorities of the town, acknowledging them-
selves to be the parties engaged. in the _affray, and
prepared to defend their cause. Mr. Lytle, who had
started for his home, having withdrawn from the Uni-
versity several days before the occurrence of the con-
flict, returned from Staunton. Professors Harrison,
Holmes, Cabell, Schele, N. K. Davis and Smith, of the
University facualty, were present during the invsesti-
gation and testified to the general good ‘character of
all three of the students. Judge William J. Robert-
son and Colonel R. T. W. Duke, appeared as counsel
for the accused. “

The testimony showed a general fight, during which
all three of the young men were knocked down by one
or the other of the negroes, and in which weapons
were used by one or two of the students. William
Moon and Peter Twine, the two colored men who
were in company with Gilmore, and also the three
students were closely examined by the justice. The
testimony agreed as to the general facts. The diffi-
culty originated, according to the testimony of all, by
the brushing off (as the accused assert by accident) of
the hat of one of the colored men (Moon), whereupon
Twine struck Harris, felling him to the ground, and
then knocked Lytle to his knees, when he (Lytle) im-
mediately discharged his pistol, which he held in his
hand, and balls from which struck Gilmore.

The examination took place before Justice A. R. Mc-
Kee, and after a very thorough investigation of the
facts Messrs. Harris and Barrows were discharged and
Mr. Lytle held to answer an indictment. . The justice
bailed the accused in the sum of $500 for himself and
his sureties in the same amount, his counsel, Messrs.
Robertson and Duke, going on his bond.

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Bad Place to be Found Dead.

St. Louis, Mo., March 1.—Charles E. Spooner, a
member of the late well-known insurance firm of
Spooner & Collins, died in an apopletic fit here this
morning. He had retired the night before with a
well-known courtesan, named Katie Emwell, in her
room, and this morning the latter awoke to find her
paramour a ghastly corpse at herside. The dead man
was only twenty-eight years of age, and up to the
time of the failure of the firm in which he was the
senior member, which occurred about Christmas last,
he bore an excellent reputation, and had as bright
prospects before him as any young man in St. Louis.
The woman found in his company wasa bright and in-
telligent girl. The coroner held an inquest on the body
at ten o’clock, and rendered a verdict that death was
caused by an apopletic fit. The attack was probably
superinduced by strong drink, as. the deceased for
months previous to his death had been a constant
drinker.

Cowardly Assassination.

Kansas City, Mo., March 3.—This evening, about
eight o’clock, a dastardly murder was committed in a
little two-story brick house, located on the East
Levee, near the city limits. An Irishman, named
Michael Curolen, was sitting in his own house, when
suddenly a cowardly assassin from without sent a
ball crashing through the window into his heart.
Carolen fell over on to the floor, with the blood gush-
ing from his mouth, and expired in two or three

jmutes. There were four men in the room at the
tims, and one of tnem, who ren out, was fired upon
by the murderer of Carolen, but the ball went wide of
its mark and the man escaped. The murdered man
kept a boarding-house for the Chicago and Alton em-
ployes and was perfectly inoffensive, and there is no
clue to the murderer.

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Remarkable Monstrosity.

An individual residing near Cadiz, Ohio, recently
started the risibles of the denizens of that city by
calling upon a prominent taxidermist, who resides
there, with a curious monstrosity in the shape of a
calf partly human and perfectly formed, as such, from
the waist up. The part-human beast having died he
desired to have it stuffed. He stated that he had pur-
chased the mother of this strange infant but a short
time before its advent into this world. Where is
Barnum ?

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The Cora Sammis Malpractice Case.
{With Portrait. |

On another page we give an authentic portrait of
Frank Cosgrove, the alleged seducer of Miss Cora
Sammis, the victim of malpractice at the house of
Mrs. Bertha Berger, 161

this city, a full account of which has been given on

East Twenty-seventh street,

previous occasions in the GazeTre, and indicted with
Mrs. Berger for alleged complicity in causing the death

ofthe unfortunate young lady

Mancx 15, 1879.]

Perilous Freak of an Insane Woman.

[Subject of Illustration. ]

Thé residents of Huron strect, Greenpoint, L.I., on Thursday, 27th
ult., were treated to a novel spectacle, and for a short time an excite-
ment quite unusual gathered in the vicinity of 71 a gaping crowd.
Under ordinary circumstances a woman hanging out of a sccond story
window is calculated to gather a crowd, but when, added to this thril-
ling attitude, she keeps up an animated dialogue with. parties on the
sidewalk and threatens, among other dire things, to let go her purchase
on the window-sill and come down on the paved area “all at once,” the
interest is, of course, increased. Such a spectacle and such threats the
crowd spoken of stood to see and hear, and while their wonderment
grew Mr. Goodwin, whose connection with the suspended woman will
be explained presently, made frantic endeavors to reach her by means
ofa ladder. Alack! the ladder, when thrown against the house, was
found to be too short to reach the form dangling from the second story

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FATAL ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING OF MAY _ HOW-
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window. The crowd stood spell-bound during the elevation of the |

ladder, and when the inadequacy of the means of escape was made
manifest a long drawn “ Ah!” such as juveniles indulge in at a pyro-
technic display lingered long on the air. Just then a lumber wagon
hove in sight, and by the judicious use of its cargo a
platform was erected, and the insufficient ladder
being placed thercon, Mrs. Bannister—for such was

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PERILOUS FREAK OF MRS. BANNISTE AN
SANE WOMAN, IN ATTEMPTING 0 ESCAPE
FROM HER RESIDENCE, GREENPOINT, L. I.

Main streets, was thrown into a commotion by a horse-whipping affair,
which took place within the store, and which a couple of hours later
resulted in a bloody tragedy at the tobacco factory of J. K. Coudrey
corner of Twenty-fourth and Main streets. The parties in the rencontre
Mr. John E. Poindexter and Mr. Charles C. Curtis, are both young men,
of high social standing, and when, at eleven o’clock, one of them, Mr,
Curtis, had heen shot down with four pistol balls in his body the great‘
est excitement ensued.

It seems that un Saturday a young woman went to the store where
Curtis was employed to purchase a pair of shoes, and, as she alleges,
was insulted by Curtis. This was made known to Poindexter, who was
the young Woman’s fiancee. This morning Poindexter went to the store
after Curtis, and proceeded to cowhide him. After striking him a few

the pendant woman’s name—was rescued and brought
to terra firma. The facts and occurrences antedating
this dramatic scene are briefly told. Mrs. Liana Ban-
nister, of 49 West Washington place, was declared u
lunatic in July last and Mr. Goodwin appointed a
committee on her person and estate. She was sent to
Bloomingdale Asylum, where she remained for some
months, and was then transfered to 71 Huron street
where her two sisters, Anne Elizabeth Ely and Jane
Giles, reside. For some time $10 a week was paid for
her board, but of late the payment was discontinued

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MISS OLLIE GUNYELL, ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN
ADUCTED BY THE WINANTS, ATLANTA, GA,
—SEE PAGE 8.

it is said. On the advice of counsel for the commit
tee, Mr. Goodwin went over to see his ward and, it is
said, was refused admittance. When he was about to
leave the place his ward, whose room was on the
second floor, saw him, and in her endeavor to get to
him occasioned the scene here described. Mr. Good}
win took his ward away with him, and she is now in
the.custody of friends in this city.

Deplorable Tragedy.
{Subject of Illustration. }
RICHMOND, Va., March 3.—About nine o’clock this
morning the vicinity of the fashionable shoe store of
"Messrs. Wingo, Ellett & Crump, corner of Tenth and

MISS BELLA KILLBURY, PEDESTRIAN,
IN SEVEN

stopped by persons who were present. About eleven

and a friend entered the office of the establishment, where

was seated at his desk. They went up to an opening over
Poindexter’s desk, and Curtis demanded an apology for the injury he
had done him this morning. Poindexter replied, “I have no apology to
make you, sir.” Curtis seemed to hesitate, but in a moment, with his
friend, he pushed his way around and beside the counter, advancing on
Poindexter, who turned his back to his desk and his face to his visitors.
Again Curtis seemed to waver, but his friend demanded, “‘ What did you
come here for® Knock him down! -Killhimi” Curtis then advanced
upon him and Poindexter said, ‘Don’t you strike me,1 am armed; if
you do I will kil} you.” Poindexter had now drawn his pistol, retreat-
ing towards the back part of the office. Curtis followed until he was
close enough to strike Poindexter a heavy blow on his raised left arm.
He had struck some three or four blows when Poindexter, with bis arm
still raised warding off the blows, began firing. The first shot took effect

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THE COWHIDING AFFAIR BETWEEN PO
DEXTER AND GURTIS, WHICH LED TO THE
FATAL SHOOTING OF CURTIS, RICHMOND, VA.

in the right breast, just below the nipple, the next two in the left
breast, in the region of the heart, and the fourth in the forehead, just
over the lett eyebréw. The lattor is said to have penetrated the brain.
Curtis fell at the feet of his combatant, the blood :pouring in such 8
volume from his wounds as to cover the flocr of the
office in.s few moments. | fix ‘shite were fired in all,

one of the coat sleeve of
Captain ‘A. M. Lyon, ‘one ofthe members of the firm,
who had ‘witnessed the entire tragedy.

Poindexter, when he saw the body of Curtis welter,
ing in his blood, threw up his hands and exclaimed-
“My God,’ do something for this man! I did not
want to kill him. Send for a Berar do somethin’
for him 1’

Strange to say the young man 80 terribly wounded
did not die instantly, but lingered till half past
seven o’clock to-night, when he breathed his last.
Several pliysicians rendered all the sid they could

CHARLES 8. PATE, MURDFRER OF PATROL-—
MAN HAMPTON, AUGUSTA, GA., SENTENCED
TO BE EXECUTED MARCH 7TH.— SEE PaG& 3.

and succeeded in conveying Curtis to his house,
where he lay till his death, paralyzed and uncon-
scious, surrounded by devoted and sorrowing friends,
but whose attentions were powerless to avert death.

A Courtesan an Fatally Shot.

[Subject of of Illustration. }
[Special Correspondence of Poricez Gazette. }
Curvrenne, W. T., February 24.—This afternoon the
report of a pistol was heard in 2 saloon known as the

ENGAGED IN

DAYS,

A WALK OF 400 MILES
AT EAGLE HALL, HOBOKEN, N, J,.—See Pace 2.

“Crystal Wine Parlors,” kept by Jessie Williams, 6
woman of the town. Several persons rushed into the
place, when they discovered the body of May Howard,
a courtesan, lying lifeless upon the floor with a bullet

Mance 15, 1879.]

NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE.

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WHY THE CHAIRS
MORTALITY AMONG THE

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ANT BUT FRAIL PARLOR FURNITURE, A

wound in her temple. A young man, named Tom | authorities. An inquest was held and the coroner’s
Quinn, # Texan and s herder, frequenter of the | jury rendered a verdict that May Howard came to her

house, was sitting upon a sofa holding in his hand | death by a

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MISS ELIZABETH COLE, VICTIM OF A SAD ACCI-
DENTAL SHOOTING, CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.
~- ske Pace 2.

reqoiver | belonging to the victim. He claimed that
they were both examining the pistol when it was ac-
cidentally discharged while in the hands of Quinn, who
had carelessly pointed it at her with the result stated.

Quinn at once surrendered himself to the police

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THOMAS RODUNDO, ALIAS PROCOPIO, ALIAS
‘SRED DICK, THE TIGER OF CALIFORNIA.”
— SEE PAGE 2.

@ pistol shot, accidentally discharged by
Tom Quinn.

Why the Chairs Broke Down.

(Subject of Illustration. ]
A Chicago father of several attractive girls put
fashionable thin-legged chairs in his parlor,

STARTLING EFFECT OF NEW YORK BEER
WAUKEE BREWER, WHO GETS UP
TOMBS.— See Paae 13.

HIM TO THE

ATHER, UNABLE TO OBTAIN A

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SATISFACTORY EXPLANATION FROM HIS

DAUGHTERS FOR THE PREVALENT

AFFIXES TO EACH CHAIR A STATEMENT OF ITS SEATING CAPACITY.

annoyed by the frequency with which the frail furni-
ture was broken. He asked the girls about it, and
one of them said: “I was sitting in the easy chair by
the fire, and Charl—that is to say, Mr. Smith—was
sitting on the sofa by the window, when suddenly—
crack, down went the little rocking chair that no one
was sitting on at all. It must be the poor glue they
use, or perhaps it was the frost.’’ The father studied

and was | the subject a few days, then he gave to each daughter

UPON MR. BERGHOLZ,
STREET SCENE THAT INTRODUCES

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® locket plainly inscribed with her namo and weight,
and on each chair riveted a silver plato bearing tho
words, “‘ Warranted to bear up —— pounds.” Calling

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ALBERT EMMELL, ALIAS BIEIEB, A NOTED
CHICAGO HIGHWAYMAN AND GARROT! 2. —
SEE PAGE 2.

in the girls, he said: “ Now, if there’san7 racre chsir3
broken, it is because your young men czn‘t doa sum
in simple subtraction, or else becauso thcy are
bent on malicious mischief and destrnction of
property.”

WY
THOMPSON, ALLEGED MURDERER OF

JAMES ICE, MARION COUNTY, WEST VA.—
SEE PAGE 2

ISAAC

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A WANDERING’ WIFE.

The Strange, Double-Wedded Life of a
Fascinating Woman and the Remark-
able Matrimonial Experience of

A DELUDED SON OF THE SEA.

His Quick Trip to Africa and what Followed
His Unexpected Return from an
Abbreviated Cruise.

STARTLING TABLEAU

AT GILMORE'S,

A very spicy story has recently been developed
through the medium of a divorce suit in this city,
presenting certain features not only peculiarly rare,
even in such revelations, but which, in many respects,
as detailed as follows in the Mercury, is almost with-
out a parallel in this country, at least :

About two years since a young married couple
hired ‘‘ furnished apartments ’’ on West Tenth street.
The lady was very stylish, and large, and golden-
haired, with a soft, sensuous mouth, languishing
violet eyes and exuberance of chest. The gentleman
was @ quiet, undemonstrative person of forty, or
thereabouts, who seemed to have neither eyes nor
words for anybody except his wife. He followed the
sca as @ profession, and, as far as the landlady could
pry out, he was engaged on a European steamer, visit-
ing this port regularly every month. The landlady
couldn’t “ place him’’ on ship-board. He was cer.
tainly not acommon seaman. He was certainly not
the captain. But whether he was purser, steward,
the bowsprit’s mate or the foremast’s husband, she
couldn’t, for the life of her, make out. His name
appeared to be Charles Raynor, from the fact that she
heard Mrs. Raynor call him Charlie. When Charlie
went to sea

HIS LADY WAS VERY LONELY.

Solitude possessed no more charms for her than it did
for Alexander Selkirk. She told her landlady that she
couldn’t live in the howling seclusion of New York
during her husband’s four weeks’ absence; that she
must go home to her mother, or die of ennui. Her
mcther lived in Poughkeepsie, and the landlady agreed
to sub-let the Raynor apartments to any. desirable
tenant that might come along for a week or two, and
deduct the revenue so obtained from the room rent.
It was understood that Mr. Raynor should not be the
wiser of such a contract. The landlady and her tenant
got along admirably on this basis, and exchanged
satisfied winks as they divided up their mutual
profits. Probably because he may have noticed that
his wife was possessed of a reddish and ardent eye, Mr.
Raynor took an opportunity of asking his landlady
‘how Anne got along in his absence.’’ Then the ex-
cellent woman would take up her parable and soar
into the sunny realms of eulogium. She assured him
that ‘“‘ Heaving ’’ had bestowed upon him a matchless
wife. Anne wasa true wife in the old-fashioned sense
—nothing flaunting or giddy about her. She stayed
in the house, as a true wife ought almost always to
do, she did. She didn’t throw sheep’s eyes at all the
young men as came around, she didn’t. Solaced by
such gratifying reports, the man went on his way
rejoicing, and smiled contemptuously when he heard
of the bickering

BETWEEN OTHER MEN AND THEIR WIVES.
Somewhat less than year since a young married
couple engaged furnished rooms in Nineteenth street.
The husband, a tall, good-looking fellow, wore the
uniform of a railroad corporation, in whose employ-
ment he operated as conductor. He was very gay and
chatty, and put on rakish airs when he escorted his
wife along the street. The lady might be four or five
and twenty, tall, and exuberantly formed, fond of
talking about chest measurements and of showing her
arms. The four or five young married men in the
house greatly admired Mrs. Lamb, and when oppor-
tunities offered exchanged civilities with her on the
stairs. On the contrary, young wives rather disliked
her—thought her an audacious thing, and kept them-
selves aloof. The conductor was evidently jealous,
and made a good deal of fuss if he chanced to return
home and find her absent. There are small families
in this city who live together in furnished apart-
ments, and they migrate to and froa good deal. These
are Young mech and women who are intimate without
any ceremony, drifting round and mingling in the
same domestic cess-pools. A good deal of equivocal
acquaintanceship can thus be formed if the patrons
of this style of living are anxious for it. Sometimes
in their flittings they may meet the same couples four
or five times. It was in this way that a lady, mecting
Mrs. Lamb upon the. Nineteenth street stairs, ex-
claimed, ‘‘O, Mrs. Raynor! Who would have thought
of seeing yeu here! How is Mr. Raynor? I suppose
he’s at sea? When did you leave Mrs. ——’s?”’ and
sO on and so on. ‘“Sh-h-h-sh!”’
other. ‘I'm Mrs. Lamb here;

. “NOT A WORD,”’
Mrs. Lamb had a sister down in Riverhead, Long
Island, so Conductor Lamb understood, who was sub-
ject to fits, and in consequence she was frequently
confined to her bed a week at a time. During those
distressing spasms, Eliza, for so was she named, would
take food from no one but Annie. Ah, they had loved
each other so much when they were girls. Hence it
transpired that Annie flew on the wings of affection
to her sister’s side whenever she was ailing. These
indispositions succeeded each other with tolerable
regularit? once a month. Conductor Lamb thought
that the moon had something to do with it, inasmuch
that twice in succession Annie hagl been called away
about the period of full moon; but as, on subsequent
occasions, the illness supervened in all the possible
quarters, the lunar influence as an aid to spasms was,
as atheory, given up. In the early portion of winter
the further apart, although the
weather was stormy and inclement: but, on the other

admonished the

paroxysms were

scullintan dalatadebdeniendatite, Sdetibbeteer enssadiatan came Sahai ite

hand, Annie’s absences were aggravated by the per-
verse irregularities of Long Island trains. Sometimes
she would be away a week or even ten days at a time,
wheu the conductor would snort with anger and dis-
sipate his money in telegrams, to which he never by
any accident received a response. When they were
reunited wordy tempests would rage in the sacred
SECLUSION OF THEIR FURNISHED APARTMENTS.

On these occasions the landlady would silently assist |

by the application of an ear to the key-hole or a con- dangerous and bloody characters whose names have

venient crevice.

There have been many stormy spells during the
winter through which we have not yet passed. Trains
have been snowed up, ships have been tempest-tossed,
and travel of all kinds have been delayed. Still, Mrs.
Raynor was always aware of the exact day in which
her husband’s ship was seen in the offing, and was

always on hand to receive him with a promptness that |

never failed. Finally there came a day when Annie
felt herself absolved from such punctilious observance
of her husband’s arrivings and sailings. She noticed
in the European cablegrams that her husband’s vessel
had been drafted by the British Government to convey
troops and munitions of war to Calitornia, and, as she
informed her Tenth street landlady, ‘‘she would go
and have an awful nice long stay at home with mother
and the girls.

A few hours later Mrs. Lamb informed her husband
that her sister down on Riverhcad was wonderfully
improved, and that it would not be necessary to pro
ceed thither on

HER PERIODICAL NURSING EXPEDITION.

Hence she suggested that they should celebrate the
favorable change by having a real jolly time. In Con
ductor Jim Lamb’s vocabulary of pleasure the only
word in illuminated Roman capitals is dancing. He
loves to dance. He prides himself on his dancing. It
was, therefore, resolved that the pair should attend
the big masquerade saturnalia at Gilmore’s Garden.
The pair were among the earlicst arrivals, not by any
means conspicuously attired. They enjoyed them-
selves to the top of their bent, as most probably did
the other fifteen thousand or so, said to have been
jammed into the old railroad depot. until—the word
“until ’’ must give us pause while the kindly reader’s
excursive imagination is conducted across the ocean
to Liverpool.

Although Mr. “Sam "’ Raynor might have materially
enlarged the borders of his geographical knowledge by
a visit to South Africa, he remembered him that he
had a bouncing wife—a wife, with the proportions
which are usually assigned to Columbia when she
becomes the figure-head of a ship—towards the setting
sun, and he said compendiously that he was willing
to leave Africa to Stanley and the Zulus. So he shipped
on a sister vessel put on the transatlantic route in
place of the large steamer that had been chartered as
a transport. He consequently arrived in New York
about the usual time, and proceeded to his Tenth
strect home

IN HIS USUAL QUIET WAY.

The landlady met him at the door as usual. The
window of his cozy parlor was illuminated as usual.
Everything appeared to be as usual, except the mad-
ame’s smile. 1t was most unusual—it was about as
cheerful as if, while taking a trip with some esteemed
friends dowh the bay in summer to Coney Island, the
naughty wind should suddenly puff off herjaunty hat
and abundant coils of brown hair or jute, leaving an
arid expanse of baldness upon the cranium top, in
full view of all the passengers of an over-crowded
boat.

‘*‘T suppose Annie's up-stairs,”’ he said after the in-
explicably confused “ how d’ye do’s.”’

“Well, no, Mr. —— Captain Rayror; she’s not in
her room at present; she’s gone up to Po’kipsie—see
her mother—”’

“All right—I'll go up: she’ll be back to-night or
t'morrow.”’

“ We—cell; the fact is—’’

In brief, the landlady told her tenant that she had
permitted a party of friends to enjoy themselves, as
Mrs. Raynor had gone up the river, and, as Mr. Ray-
nor had gone to the Cape of Good Hope, which she
always supposed was somewhere in Africa, and not on
Staten Island.

Mr. Sam Raynor went up to Poughkeepsie without
finding his wife. He came back to his Tenth street
rooms, lonely and dreary, unable to killthetime. On
the evening of the ball at Gilmore’s Garden he went
out and purchased from a friend tickets for

THE GRAND SATURPALIA.

Standing apart, neither dancing nor drinking, he bo-
helf Annie and her companion, and though slightly
annoyed, rather enjoyed the sight of them disporting
themselves. He didn’t imagine there was any harm
in it, and he may have been rather proud than other-
wise of his wife’s plump loveliness, surging around
in billowy undulations in her partner’s arms. The
mariner watched his wife to the end, and followed her
unperceived to her Nineteenth street destination
about daylight in the morning. He did not go home.
He called at noon, and asked what these things meant.
He asked after Mrs. Raynor, and was informed by a
lady whom we have indicated and whom he had met
before, that ‘Mrs. Raynor was Mrs. Lamb in this
house.”’

And so the whole damning story was developed, and
a visit paid to a well-known Jefferson Market lawyer
by the ‘mariner, and proceedings commenced for a
divorcee. It is said that the enterprising Annie has
been employed in several storessat various times, and
that already she has lived with or been married to
more than half a dozen husbands.

; PURVES

Bassett Saves His Bacon.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn., March 1.—Judge Loomis charged
the Bassett jury this morning, occupying the time
from the opening of the court until five minutes of
twelve o'clock. The jury then retired,
absent one hour and twenty minutes.
a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree.
The counsel for the defense gave notice of a motion
tor a new trial on the ground of new
obtained.

and were

evidence just
Sentence was then pronounced by Judge
Santord of imprisonment for life at Wethersfield,

They returned |
| lodger.

THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE.

BOLD, BAD BILL BABB.

Record of Another Typical Texan Murder-
Fiend, the Instigator of and Participant
in the Frighttul Massacre of the Smith
and Stull Families, and a Long Category

of Cruel Crimes Which Would Excite the
Horror of a Savage on the War-Path.

MERIDIAN, Tex., March 1.—Among the desperate,

been a terror on this frontier for some years is, or was,
William Babb. Originally of little or no education,
but a strong mind that readily won an influence
among his associates, utterly brutal and reckless, and
snid to have in his veins an admixture of Cherokee
blood, Babb succeeGed in accumulating a large
property in lands, cattle, horses, herds and flocks,
which gave him the reputation of having great wealth.
He also became a merchant, and had a store at
Turnersville, Coryell county. His pecuniary standing
made him troops of friends, and around him was
drawn a band of cow-boys and frontiersmen, with
Winchesters and six-shooters, prepared to obey the
slightest nod of their adored chief. He had among
citizens also many friends, who would swear Babb
was one of the best of men. Others, on the contrary,
stood ready to testify that he was a man of blood and
aterror to the whole region of country where he
dwelt. He was, in fact, a sort of frontier baron, with
a troop of retainers ever around him to do his bidding,
either to bull-doze judges and courts, or
ANY DESPERATE DEED.

A year or two ago the wires flashed the particulars of
an awful murder in this part of the country, as brutal
as it was cowardly and unprovoked; that of an offend-
ing merchant named Vaughan. He was shot down and
slain in his quiet little country store by a party of
masked men; Vaughan, having borne an excellent char.
acter, had the entire respect of the community.
Bill Babb was strongly suspected of this cold-blooded
assassination, and the good citizens of the community
begin to think it time to organize for self-protection.

A few months ago the wires‘again flashed the news
of a most horrible and wholesale slaughter in Coryell
county—that of the Stullfamily. Stull had had some-
thing to doin charging Babb with the murder of
Vaughan. One night as he and his wife, Mrs. Stull,
and a gentleman, a Mr. Smith, and the latter’s wife,
were wrapped in the mists of shadowy dreams, the
house was surrounded by a crowd of some fifteen
men, who piled up kerosene cans against the rear of
the dwelling, and threw a petard or some explosive
missile in through the window to awaken the sleep
ing females ere beginning their

HORRIBLE AND DEVILISH WORK.

Smith, Stull and their wives attempted escape, and
ran out at the back door, Mrs. Smith with a young
child in her arms. The attacking party shot down the
two men, and, coming up to Stull as he lay on the
ground, turned him over to see if he was dead, and
then, to make sure of it, fired several bullets into the
dead body. Mrs. Smith, fleeing to save her own life
and that of her infant, was also shot down by these
Texan devils, whose deeds surpass the very imps of
hell.

Mrs. Stull, fortunately for herself, did not run out
with the others, but crouched and hid herself undera
table while her husband and his friends were being
shot down like beasts on the outside. She crept from
her hiding place, and, watching the man who turned
over the body of her dead husband, recognized him as
William Babb. This she emphatically swore to

AT THE CORONER’S INQUEST.
Babb was arrested and lodged in jail, but, as might be
expected from a weak-knecd judge, he was turned
loose on $1,500 bail, for of all contemptible, trucu-
lent, white-livered creatures, it is a Texasjudge giving
bail to a red-handed assassin who laughs in his sleeve
at the sentimental official simpleton.

The people of Coryell, Bosque and other counties,
seeing there was no protection in the craven-hearted
judges, set to work and organized vigilance commit-
tees, and soon made short work of s:veral desperadoes.
Babb’s turn would undoubetedly have come next.
But he quietly and suddenly sold out his possessions,
and, at the head of fifteen of his retainers, well
mounted and armed—like one of the feudal barons of
the ancient day, rode away, going westward. The
people were overjoyed at thus being rid of a pest
whom they hated and feared. In the meantime the
blood of the Stulls and of Vaughan cries from their

graves in the crimson soil of Texas for vengeance.
: ooo

Making an Unnecessary Fuss.
*——

In Chicago, I1l., some nights since, Robert McCune
changed his hotel and engaged a bunk in a cheap
lodging-house at 375 South Clark street. He retired
immediately and slept soundly until three o’clock in
the morning following, when he was disturbed by
some one endeavoring to draw his clothes from _ be-
neath his pillow where he had taken the precaution
to place them. He arose on one elbow and gazed upon
a swarthy-looking man of giant stature who was doing
the mischief. He demanded an explanation, which
the strange man disdained to offer. His dignity had
been insulted and his honor questioned. He simply
resorted to a method of silencing the lodger which
would teach him to mind his own business in the
future. He threw an arm about McCune’s waist and
thrust one of his huge thumbs into the man’s eye and
tried to gouge it out. It wasaslippery undertaking,
and the eye slid back into its socket after it had been
partially removed. Failing in the attempt, the fellow
then closed his heavy jaws on the man’s left ear and
the oricular appendage changed hands, so to speak.
He didn’t proceed to spit it out and proceed to bite
off the other ear as a man would naturally do forspite
when possessed of an evil spirit, but actually chewed
the morsel and swallowed it. By that time the howls
of the man with the amputated ear aroused the land-
lord, who appeared and saved the remainder of his
The two were put into the hands of the police

| and taken to the Harrison Street Station—one for cure,

The fiend has aname, and
He said he was twenty-
four years of age. and had been a river hand, a driver

the other for punishment.
he gave it as James Dunn.

(MancH 15, 1879.

a hod carrier, a packing-house hand, in twenty other
employments—the last, that of a vagrant. He said:
“Some feilers is mighty particler "bout who they
sleep with, and that chap is one of ’em.’’ He said he
usually lodged at 375 South Clark street and slept on
the upper tier. The night in question, others were in
his bed when he went in, so he “‘ jes went down to get
into the bunk with the stranger who hez made sucha
fuss.’’
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A French Matrimonial Drama.

Etiene Guireau is a Frenchman and an artist de-
signer of carpet and shawl patterns in the employ of
a Worth street manufacturer, where his skill and
ingenuity are paid for at the rate of $5,000 a year.
Celestin Gautier is a French cook of a fiery nature.
These two men have been figuring in the Marine Court
for a year or two in various suits and counter suits, of
which the original moving cause has been Gautier’s
petite wife, Marguerite.

Gautier and his wife kept a boarding-house in which
Guireau became a boarder. Here an improper inti-
macy was alleged to have arisen between the wife and
the boarder, and Mrs. Gautier having gone to France
for her health, her husband seized the opportunity to
have Guireau arrested in a suit forcrim.con. Only
circumstantial evidence was offered on the trial, which
occurred before a judge alone without a jury, and the
suit was dismissed. Thereupon Guireau turned upon
Gautier and had him arrested in a suit of damages for
false imprisonment. That case came to trial before
Judge Goepp and a jury, and Guireau recovered a ver-
dict for $50 and costs.

This was followed by another suit by Gautier for
crim. con. alleged to have been committed since the
last trial, and in this suit a verdict was brought in on
the 15th. The court-room was filled for two days with
eagerly interested Frenchmen.

The plaintiff alleged that while his wife was in
France, Guireau followed her and traveled about with
her; also, that. having returned to New York, Mrs.
Gautier took a house in Amity street and afterward in
146th street, and that Guireau lived with her there,
ostensibly as her boarder, but really as her husband.
Scipion Burgal, who was formerly a friend of Guireau.
but who has had a falling out with him, testified to
admissions of guilt made to him, and it was also
shown that Guireau was in the habit of meeting Mrs.
Gautier at a restaurant in Sixth avenue and going out
with her, often late at night. This restaurant, Mrs.
Gautier testified, is kept by a friend and country-
woman of hers, whom she often went to see in a
friendly way, and her meetings with Guireau there
she declared to be purely accidental. All the accusa-
tions of improper intimacy both she and Guireau
denied absolutely. She also testified that she is living
apart from her husband and is prosecuting a suit for
divorce against him, because he, by his own conduct
and not Guireau, had alienated her affections from
him. While in France he had written her a lctter
that was of so base a character as to stifle all affection
for him. This letter was not permitted in evidence.
as being a'communication between husband and
wife. °

It came out on the trial that Guireau is himself a
married man. It also appeared that the Gautiers have
a little boy, about six years old, who remains with
Mrs. Gautier and is supported by her. Judge Alker
called attention to this fact, as one not very creditable
to the plaintiff, if, as he alleged, he believed his wife
a guilty and depraved woman. “It would seem
strange,’’ said the judge, ‘‘ that a man should be wil-
ling, while so believing, to permit his child to remain
with his wife.’ The jury, after brief deliberation,
gave the plaintiff a verdict for $1,000.

A peculiar feature of the trial was the presence of a
woman, who, during the two days of the proceedings,
sat in the back of the court-room as silent as the lone |
fisherman, and who lost not a single word of the_tes-
timony. Her vigilant attention became the subject of
comment among the spectgtors; but she did not seem
to have any connection with the case, spoke to
nobody, and when the verdict had been rendered went
away.

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Cowardly Murder of a Georgia Planter.

Macon, Ga., March 1.—The particulars of a terrible
killing have just reached this city from Crawford
county. It appears that some year or two ago Mr.
Mack Robertson, a prominent planter of this section,
and a member of the firm of J. -W. Lathrop
& Co., of Savannah, employed a man named Humber
as overseer on one of his plantations. At the close of
the year Mr. Humber was notified that his services
were not needed any longer. There was a violent dis-
agreement between the two men over the settlement
of their accounts, Humber claiming that $14 was still
due him. It is said that he threatened openly to kill
Robertson if he did not square up with him. In the
meantime Humber’s wife went over to Robertson’s
house, and while there became involved in a very
sharp quarrel with Robertson. She accused him of a
number of things, until at length he betame excited,
and said that she lied in her statements concerning
him. At this Mrs. Humber said: “ You are just as
good as a dead man! My husband will kill you.”
She then left the house. Shortly afterward Robertson
was riding along the road with his son about 200 yards
in the rear. The son says that as his father was pass_
ing a thick wood he saw a bright flash from a bushy
clump, heard a report, and soon his father fell head-
long from his horse. At the same moment he saw
Humber issue from the bush and hurry across the
road. He at once pursued him, and fired at him once
or twice, but Humber escaped. He then returned to
where his father was lying, and, finding him dead, was
overcome with grief and sank down in the road. There
were five or six witnesses to the shooting, who hurried
to the scene. There is no doubt as to the identity of
Humber with the person doing the shooting. He has
escaped capture up to this time, but a telegram just
received in Macon, by Mr. Robertson’s lawyer, jnsti-
fies the suspicion that his whereabouts are known.

| The greatest excitement prevails throughout the com
' munity, and the killing is condemned in unmeasured

terms.

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Marcw 15, 1879.]

A CHURCH STIRRED UP

By the Grave Accusations of One of its
Prominent Female Members and Active
Workers Against the Pastor.

A HUSBAND'S DISCOVERY

In the Shape of a Concealed Billet-Doux,
which Compelled Him to Charge Her with
Adultery and Elicited an Alleged

CONFESSION OF HER — GUILT.

Hancock, N. Y., Februry 28.—Hancock is one of the
most romantic villages in New York State. It lies in
the shadow ofa lofty spur of the Catskills, 160 miles
trom New York, where the east and west branches of
the Delaware River unite, close to the northeastern
boundary of Pennsylvania. The spot was once a
tamous camping ground of the Indians, who called it
Nhe-haw-ken, “the wedding of the waters.’’ Hancock
is inv the midst of the great lumber region of the Dela-
ware. It is the home of several of the leading families
of Delaware county, and its inhabitants generally are
thrifty, well-to-do, respectable, and intelligent. There
are several neat church edifices in the village, one of
the most pretentious being the one belonging to the
Mcthodists.. The membership of this church is large,
and is under the jurisdiction of the New York Confer-
ence. The Methodist parsonage is a vine-covered cot-
tage adjoining the church, and is occupied by the
present pastor, the Rev. J. B. Heroy, with his wife
und children. Mr. Heroy has had charge of the
church since the spring of 1876. He is about fifty-five
years old, and has always enjoyed an

ENVIABLE POSITION IN THE CONFERENCE.
Diagonally across the street from the parsonage, and
only a few rods distant, is the home of A. J. Edwards,
a cabinet-maker, late of the firm of Edwards &
Brother. His family consists of his wife and four
children. Mrs. Lodiska Edwards is an attractive
woman of thirty-eight. She is a member of the Han-
cock Methodist Church, and until recently had a
Sunday-school class, and was one of the most active
workers in the church.

A few weeks ago Mrs. Edwards suddenly ceased her
attendance at church, and an unpleasant report
vained circulation that her husband had discovered a
letter that seemed to prove the infidelity of his wite
and the guilt of her pastor. The letter itself has since
been given to the public by Mr. Edwards, who says
he found it in his wife’s writing desk, his suspicions
having already been aroused. It was in the hand-

writing of Mr. Heroy, but bore no date or signature, |

and was as follows:

‘‘I got your note. You say it was written in the
church. Be careful. I cannot call to-day. I have
to prepare for the evening service, and it takes all my
time. I shall probably be too tired to call after ser-
vice, but will call to-morrow, early if Ican. Thanks
tor your note. Glad you feel so well. Hope you will
yet entirely well. My regards go with this. Ever
the same to you.”

‘*When I found this letter,’’ Mr. Edwards said, ‘‘ I
knew there was no longer room for doubt that

‘‘ WY DOMESTIC HAPPINESS WAS GONE.”
My wife was calling at a neighbor’s. I sent for her
at once. When she came in I showed her the letter.

‘‘In the name of Heaven, Lodiska,’’ I said, ‘‘ what
does this mean ?”’ :

She clasped her hands over her face and said:

‘*Oh, my God! My poor, poor children !’’

‘Then she was afraid I would do her harm, but I
assured her that I had no such intention, for I loved
my wife always, and we had lived peacefully and
happily together until this.”

Mr. Edwards.at once wrote to Mr. Heroy, inclosing
a copy of the note he had found. “I would like you
to strike my wife’s name from the class-book,”’ he
wrote, “ for I do not think she is any more fit to be-
long to the church than you are.’’ To this the pastor
replied, in a long letter, denying that there had ever
been any improper intimacy between himself and
Mrs. Edwards. He admitted that there had been con-
siderable correspondence between them, but main-
tained that it was harmless, and in many instances
the letters were on matters of business. He sent a
copy of a note which he said he had received from
Mrs. Edwards, to which he declared the one Mr. Ed-
wards had found wasareply. This copicd note was
one in which Mrs. Edwards made inquiry as to
whether Heroy had done an crrand for her as he had
promised once when he was in New York.

Mrs. Edwards seems to have made a full confession
to her husband on

THE DISCOVERY OF THE LETTER.
At any rate she told him that this alleged copy was
not acopy of the note she had written. She pro-
daced the following as what she had written to her
pastor, the reply to which her husband had found:

* This is written while in church, Can you come
in this afternoon? If not, come in this evening after
church, forIT am alone. Iam feeling quite well for
me,’

This was written in November last, while her hus-
band was out of town.

On the 38th of the present month Mrs. Edwards
placed in her husband’s hands a confession, made out
in l-val form, and sworn to before Justice W. H. May-
uard. In it she declares that she ‘“ makes this con-
tcssion voluntarily, and without fear or compulsion
of her husband or any other person, but because she
t-els very guilty; that she has committed a great sin,
which guilt so preys on her mind that she feels it to
be a duty she owes to herself, her family, and herGod
to inake confession.”’ ;

rhe affidavit goes on to give the history of the
Srigin and progress of her alleged criminal intimacy
With Heroy. Inthe summer ef 1877, she says, they

arranged a signal between them. ‘Mr. Heroy sug-

gested that when I was alone I should spread my hand
on a window-pane in the window looking toward the
parsonage, and this would be a signal which no one
else would know. When he saw this signal made he
came over, and at his suggestion we agreed to deposit
our correspondence behind the cushion in my pew in
church, where each could get the other's notes, and
where, my pastor said, they would be safe and handy.
They were written generally during the Sabbath ser-
vice. Mr. Heroy frequently said that we must be ex-
tremely careful that our intimacy be kept hidden, as
discovery would be

THE DESTRUCTION OF US BOTH.
He once said to me that I must use my husband well,

and not think any less of him, for he would then be
less likely to mistrust us. He further said that he
thought as much of his wife as he ever had.”’

After receiving this confession the husband took
steps to begin a criminal suit against Mr. Heroy, but
the fact that he had condoned his wife’s crime made
such proceedings impossible. He says, however, that
he has tried in every way to bring the matter before
the church authorities, but that the Presiding Elder
pays no attention to his complaint. ‘The reason,”’
Mr. Edwards thinks, “is that Mr. Heroy’s time will
be out here next month, and he will be settled in a
more distant part of the district, and the church will
thus be saved the disgrace of a public trial.”

“‘My opinion is,”’ said N. G. Hyatt, an officer in the
Hancock Methodist Church, “‘ that the church should
investigate this matter at once. If Mr. Heroy is inno-
cent, he cannot afford to lie under the present impu-
tation of guilt. The good of this charge, and of any

| charge he may be assigned to, demand that there

|

should be a full and impartial investigation.”

The Rev. Mr. Heroy was asked if he desired to con-
tradict the charges made in Mrs. Edwards’ confession.
«“T have no story to tell or explanation to make,”’ he
said. ‘‘ We have this whole matter in our own hands.
I have taken legal counsel, and am advised to say
nothing. The whole scandal is the work of a poor,
weak sister and a jealous husband.’’

Mr. Heroy is a pleasant gentleman, with long hair
streaked with gray. He has a son who is 4 preacher
in a neighboring village, and a brother also a preacher
inthe neighborhood. Mrs. Edwards is still living
with her husband.

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Ferreting Out a Great Crime.

Augusta, Ill., March 2.—Intense excitement prevails
here owing toa dispatch from Minneapolis, Minn.,
stating that the murderers of Dr. Pierson had been
arrested there. The particulars of the brutal murder
—a full account of which appeared in the GazETTE at
the time—are as follows: Dr. Pierson, a very promi-
nent citizen, was called on late on the night of
November 23rd last, and requested to visit a patient
some miles in the country. Soon after receiving the
summons he mounted his horse and rode away. A
few hours later he was found in a dying condition,
with his skull fractured. He was unconscious, and
never spoke afterwards. The murder created intanse
excitement in and about Augusta. The country was
scourcd, but the officers had nothing to work upon.
Though the excitement subsided the efforts to capture
the villains were not given up. A short time since
the officers got aclew from a colored man named
Glover, who lives here. Two colored men, one of
whom went by the name of Ed, were in Augusta about
the time of the murder. Ed did not work while here
but spent most of his time with Glover. After the
two mer left the officers began to work on Glover. A
week ago they obtained some information that decided
them to follow and arrest Ed and his partner. It was
ascertained that they were in Minneapolis, and Officer
George Tarr left early in the week. The telegram al-
luded to above, which created the sensation, was from
him. It also instructed the officers to arrest Marion
Hetrick, # young man of this place, who is respectably
connected. This was done, and Hetrick placed under
guard. In what way he is implicated will not be
known until Tarr arrives with his prisoners. It is re-
ported that another party, now out of the state, was
implicated, and an offiéer departed to effect his arrest.
What evidence the officers have that they have ar-
rested the guilty parties will not be known until the
prisoners arrive. Their arrival is anxiously awaited
by the people of this town.

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Miss Lena Aberle’s Alleged Pugilistic Exploit.

{Subject of Hlustration. |

Miss Lena Aberle, daughter of Manager Aberle of
the Tivoli Theatre, and treasurer of that institution,
was arraigned in Jefferson Market Court on the 4th,
on a charge of assault, the complainant being Mrs.
Ackerman, of West Twenty-ninth street, who claims
that she was roughly handled by the girl on the Sun-
day night previous. Mrs. Ackerman was not in court
and her counsel excused her absence on the ground
of illness.

** How is this?’’ asked the justice of Miss Aberle.
‘*Did you have an altercation in a private box with
Mrs. Ackerman ?’’

“Indeed I did not,’’ she replied. ‘I was in the
private box when this woman came in apparently in-
toxicated and insulted me.’’

* What did you do then ?”’ asked His Honor.

‘I told her I was a lady and wanted her to under-
stand it and be gone. She pushed mec rudely and I
repulsed her. At this moment my father came in,
but not in time to prevent her falling. She injured
hor eye, I believe, in the fall, but she had no right to
come into the box-office nor use such languag: toward
me as she did.”’

The complainant alleges that Miss Aberle plied a
gentleman friend with wine until he became intoxi-
cated, after which she struck the woman in his com-
pany. Mr. Aberle says the occurrence took place after
midnight on Sunday in the box-oftice, where the com-
plaining parties made themselves obnoxious.

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Must Pull Hemp.

CoxncorD, N. H., March 5.—Governor Prescott has re-
fused to commute the sentence of J. Q. Pinkham, the
New Durham murderer, application for which was
made on the ground ot hisirresponsibility. Pinkham
was sentenced to be hanged on March 4th, Is79

| mencement up to now, as all that heard me repeat it

A PITIFUL PLEA.

Mrs. Alexander’s Vehement Avowal of Inno-
cence and Appeal for Public Sympathy
and Release from the Life-Imprisonment
to Which She is Sentenced as the Accom-

plice of Her Paramour, Bassett, in the
Murder of “Stuttering Jack.”

The following paper was written by Mrs. Alexander,
the chief witness against Frank Bassett on his trial
for the murder of Weinbecker, in which crime she
was an associate, and for which she is under sentence
of imprisonment for life. It was composed during
her attendance at the trial and delivered to her late
counsel soon after the jury found Bassett guilty of
murder in the second degree :—

“Every period of life has its privileges. All women
that pass thirty years of age are not disreputable
creatures as some people picture. Ihave had to sit
and hear myself abused most shamefully, lied about,
and I dare not defend myself. This law business, the
past 1 have experienced is so unjust, so cruel and un-
feeling as to misconstrue every actofmine. This law,
that claims to be just in all things, allows Frank Bas-
sett and his family to rob me and my house
of all my worldly goods, things doubly en-
deared to me for the sake of the givers that are now
dead. I worked hard to keep them together for
twenty years. The law ignores my heartache at the
loss of what

I HOLD DEAR NEXT TO LIBERTY.
Is there no law for house-breaking and robbery ? Am
I to be punished for what my innermost feclings
abhor? I have done more good for suffering
humanity in a generous, unpretending way in my
life than, I’ll-veniure tosay, any woman of my age in
the state of Connecticut. Why am I singled out for
such heartless persecution? I never was guilty of
any of those awful, disgraceful acts that was brqught
against me. Who can swear before God that I am
guilty? Not one. I wish to state to the public that
I have been pictured such a nronster that my heart
sinks to almost hopelessness. I do not deserve all
this disgrace heaped upon me witlfout mercy. The
worst, most sinful thing that J ever done in my life
was to live with that heartless, ungrateful Frank Bas-
sett. As God is my witness, I was inmécent. When I
was moving my head, while Frank Bassett was talking,
I was not looking at him, as I remember; I was enl}
saying, ‘No, no; it’salie.’ I did not know I was
moving my head at the time, dnd itis no wonder, for
the past five months I have passed through degrada-
tions, sickness and everything but death, and the
next act will be death if some reform is not made.

I WISH TO DEFEND MYSELF.

In this, my only way is through the public press.
(All papers please copy for the sake of doing justice
to a down-trodden, persecuted, defenseless woman.)

** First—I never said one word to Frank about my
son-in-law, Tom Baker, or William Clague. I never
thought of procuring bodies; never intended to wil-
fully aid in any way to obtain them, because I gave
up all idea of selling myself and I thought no more
about it.

‘+ Second—As for Frank ever being under my control,
it is false. He was always headstrong apd would do
as he had a mind to, or break my furniture. My hav-
ing Frank arrested for assault and‘ destroying my
goods is proof of what I say.

“Third—I never kept whisky in my house, for | never
drink myself. Icould not have kept it if Ihad wanted
to, for I could not keep even camphor, he always
drank it up. He even drank my medicine bitters away
from me before I knew it.

** Fourth—It is tedious to go over everything singly,
so I will ask the public respectfully why Iam _ partly
believed, when I have told the truth from the com*

can and have testified that I told
ONE AND THE SAME STORY ?

Now, when I have proved that truth all the way
through, why am I not believed on all as well as part?
Isay my word is entitled to respect more than Frank
Bassett. Ihave honor. Iam a generous, good prin-
cipled, too-much abused woman. All that kept me
living with him so long was my gratitude. I didn’t
forget his kindness to me when I was so sick six
weeks, for when I would ever speak about leaving
Frank he would twit me of ingratitude, and that is
not in my composition. O woman! why do you not
stand up for your own sex? Why allow me to be so
mercilessly abused? Have humane duties, humane
rights, human brotherhood all died out of Bridge-
port? Have your hearts all turned into stone? I
truthfully repeat now, all that Bassett and his family
swore to against me is a lie, willful, of the deepest
dye. They have an object in view for blackening my
character. But if the truth is told about me I have
nothing to fear from the public sentiment. Why am
I thus ruthlessly misrepresented to the public? I
never have been guilty of a misdemeanor. If it is
such an unpardonable sin for me to live with Frank
Bassett unmarried because Iam under an obligation
to him for nursing me into life once, why is more
than half of Bridgeport let torun at large and only
poor me shut up in prison? Ihave never done any
worse than that in word, thought or deed. Iam

IMPRISONED ON MERELY A BARE SUPPOSITION.
What credit can there be attached tosuchalaw? A
harmless, inoffensive woman is cast into prison for
saving her own life and exposing a crime, while
house-breakers are left to go at large and enjoy his |
or her ill-got gains. : :

“T wish to speak of the unkind, cruel reporters of
the New York papers. My own countrymen, of my
birth-place, unjustly use insulting phrases against
me without knowing if I really deserve such, with,
out first finding out truth, before adding to my al-
ready crushed heart. The stone that is thrown at
another will rebound on the one that throws it. God
is good. His word has been my only comfort through

all my persecutions. I have told the truth and I fear
nothing, for my conscience is clear in the sight of |
God, our true judge, and He is the one I am trying
not to offend. { am now and have been all along |

ridiculed because I pray. [sometimes wonder if this '

THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 7

part of the world is civilized. I am in need of
humane, heartfelt sympathy. The brute creation
sympathize with one another. Not one can accuse
me of any wrong-doing ifthe truth is told about me.
Idefy them. Why amIs used in the land of my
forefathers? Is this the reward of a revolutionary
hero? Flesh and blood to be unjustly punished for
what another done? Iam ruthlessly torn from sup-
porting my aged mother, kept from helping my
invalid sister and from giving metherly counsel to
my two fatherless daughters that are poorly married.
‘God help us all’ is my daily prayer. I have had

FALSE WITNESSES BROUGHT AGAINST ME,

All the Bassett family swore falsely against me, and
I here for the last time try to make my unhappy
situation known in its true light. The Most High
Power over all, and the daily press, is all that is left to
help me, andmay the press do by me as they wish
to be done by! Justice is all I ask.

“There appeal to the Christian public for their
prayers and influence. I respectfully ask the Chris-
tian Association to pray for me and my loved ones,
my poor mother, my only sisters, sick, for all I know,
helpless, and to my dear children, that need me so
sadly. I have faith in prayer; it is all the comfort I
get. I appeal to the true Christian heart for aid, for
strength and for justice to see me restored to my
loved ones while I can yet help them, for my health
is failing, and unless I get my freedom soon I shall be
past helping myself or others. Oh, ye Christian
mothers, feel for me, pray for me and visit me when
you can. Iam an innocent woman, Iam not afraid
to call the great, all-merciful and just God to witness
whatI say. My statement is true. Frank Bassett
alone done that murder. Those three articles I was
compelled to hand to Frank through fear of losing my
life, was :

ALL THE HAND I HAD IN IT.
Qne may as well submit to be murdered as to save
their life gnd be cast into prison as long as life shall
last for obeying the first law of nature—self-preserva-
tion. Iam not the heartless, degraded creature my
enemies try to make me, but I have faith that in time
I shall have my rights. I truly thinkIam not used
as the means of a reform to a certain extent by an all-
Wise, all-sceing Ruler, and to better do my work I
must suffer as our Saviour did, so tu arrive at a true
yeform, based on a Christian foundation. More than
this Iam not-at liberty to tell now, but in God’s own
time he will open the way for me, because, if I- had
been guilty of any crime whatever, barring adultery
with Frank Bassett, I could not complain at my lot;
but Iam not guilty, and on that I build my hopes.
Here I wish to say that my heart and mind condemned
me for living unmarried with Frank Bassett, so that I
asked Frank to allow me to have my own way and
keep a separate bed, so he had a bed made by the side
of mine in my room. He was so jealous of me
HE WOULD NOT SLEEP IN ANOTHER ROOM.

My modesty will be rudely jested over, I am well
aware of; but this awful false position in which I am
placed compels me to tell the unyarnished truth so
that I may be seen as I am and not asI am repre-
sented. I would not change places with my enemies,
the false witnesses, although I now suffer cruelly
from unjust imprisonment. My mind is free from
self-condemnation, a torture they must suffer night

and day for raising their voices against an innocent °

woman they know nothing about only hearsay. The
day is coming when I will not only stand in my true
light, but I will help those unable to help themselves.
I again ask an interest in the prayers of the Christian
public for myself and my family. With respect, I
submit this, my true feeling, to the public press of
the United States. This is my only means of vindi-
cating myself in the eyes of the world. Retribution
will overtake my enemies in time. ‘Vengeance is
mine, sayeth the Lord. I will repay.’ ’”’

2eo—
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Unmasking a Spiritualistic Fraud.
{Subject of Illustration. }

At Beebe Plain, Canada, recently, a spiritualistic
seance, conducted by Mrs. Huntoon, a sister of the
notorious Eddys, was given for the edification of
believers, but was made the occasion, by ribald skep-
tics, who had intruded, unknown to the faithful, for
that purpose, of much unseemly mirth. The materi-
alization of departed spirits was the feature of the
affair, and, among other spirits summoned from the
realins of space, was that of an Indian chief. During
the appearance of the latter, however, a bold, bad boy
seized the materialized “ big Injun ’’ by the foot, and,
in spite of his vigorous efforts to release himself froni
the profane grasp of the rash young mortal, could not
be kicked off, although it is reliably stated that a first-
class specimen of an army mule could net have worked
more beautifully in that line than did the spirit visit -
ant of the noble red man. While the struggle was
going on the lights were turned up, the performance,
of course, being conducted in comparative darkness.
This was doubtless done by an accomplice of the
b. b. b., according to preconcerted arrangement, whet,
to the astonishment and grief of the faithful, but to
the intense amusement of the infidels, the edifying
tableau of the graceless lad clutching the foot of Mrs.
Huntoon, who was clumsily disguised in Indian cos-
tume, was plainly revealed to the gaze of the audience.

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Female Crooks of Chicago.

{With Portraits. |

On another page we give portraits of Lizzie Mellon
and Julia Quinn, notorious shoplifters and general
« crooks "’ of Chicago, whose physiognomy it may not
be uninteresting for police officials of other cities to
study. They have been brought to the bar of justice
in Chicago numerous times for their offenses against
the law. Their last appearance, before their present
one, was in January, when they were unaccountably
let off by the Grand Jury, though it has been hinted
that it was largely due to an affectionate regard on
the part of one ofthe jurors for Miss Mellon. They
were arrested by Officer Brannock during the latter
part of the preceding month in the act of shoplifting.
They are now in the county jail awaiting the action
of another Grand Jury,

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CURRENT CRIME.

Weekly Calendar of Conspicuous Offenses
Against Person and
Property.

MURDER’S UGLY RECORD.

The Truly Good Young Man to Swing at
the End of a Rope Like the Ordi-
narily Bad Murderers
WHO

FILL UP

THE CATEGORY,
A MARSHAL MURDERED.

K. Ayers, marshal] of Whitesboro, Texas, was mur-
dered, on the 3rd, by desperadoes whom he was trying
to arrest.

KILLED BY HIS FATHER.

In this city, on the 3rd, John McDonald, aged fifty-
four, while intoxicated, struck his son James, on the
head with a billet of wood, fracturing his skull. The
father is in prison.

A BILLIARD BALL AS A WEAPON.

Troy, N. ¥., March 3.—Augustus Barron and two
companions assaulted Michael O’Haire, in the saloon
of the latter, on Saturday night, Barron striking him
on the head with a billiard ball and fracturing his
skull. Barron escaped, but his companions, James
Fleming and John Sullivan, have been arrested.

MURDERED HER STEP-DAUGHTER.

NELSON FurNACE, Ky., March 1.—Mrs. Samuel
Elliotte, of Clay county, is in jail in Laurel county
for the alleged murder of her stepdaughter, Emma,
aged eleven years. The girl was found with ber neck
broken, her skull crushed, and otherwise injured,
The murder was witnessed, it is said, by the girl’s
brother, aged eight. The jail of Clay county was
burned some time since, which is the cause of her in-
carceration in Laurel.

CAPTURE OF A MURDERER.

LEAVENWORTH, Kan., March 3.—Joel Elliott, alias
Henry Wilson, the Dallas county, lowa, murderer, who
was caught in the southern part of this county, last
Saturday night, by Sheriff Conner, of Henry county,
Iowa, and Deputy Sheriff Rohr, this county, left to-
day in charge of Sheriff Conner for the scene of his
crime. Elliott had been in Kansas for some time, the
greater portion of the period having been in this
county. While in the state, and while detectives had
been on his track for several weeks, it was not until
last Saturday that they became sure of thcir man. He
took his arrest quite coolly, and made no resistance to
the officers. He was out on bail at the time he made
his escape.

LET OFF EASILY.

Peter O'Rourke, a canal boatman, convicted of
causing the death of a lad named Denis Sullivan, was
called up jn Part 1 of the Court of General Sessions on
the 28th ult. for sentence. The facts developed on
the trial were that Sullivan and two other boys were
fishing at the foot of pier 46 East River when, pro-
voked by some trivial cause, the accused threw a
brick at them, Sullivan receiving the blow on the
head, which caused him to fall in the river, when he
was drowned. In extenuation, it was urged that there
was no intent to cause death. The jury returned a
verdict of manslaughter in the third degree. In view
of the previous excellent character of the prisoner,
Judge Gildersleeve imposed the mitigated penalty of
two years in the State Prison at hard labor.

ON O&RCUMBTANTIAL EVIDENCE.

GREEN Bay, Wis., February 27.—Dr. St. Louis,
formerly a resident of Oconto, where years ago he lost
his wife under suspicious circumstances, settled in
Fremont, Nebraska, where his second wife died June
9th, 1877. He was accused of poisoning her in order
to marry another woman; was tried, convicted, and
sentenced to be hanged. An appeal was taken and the
judgement of the lower court set aside on technical
grounds, The doctor was again convicted and sen-
tenced to be hanged in last September.. The case was
again appealed to the Supreme Court and the deci-
sion of the lower court was affirmed. He is now sen-
tenced to be hanged on April 18th, but a strong effort
will be made to obtain a commutation of the sen-
tence, as he was. convicted solely on circumstantial
evidence, ;

SENTENCE OF A MURDEROUS TRAMP.

LEBANON, Pa., March 3.—Nimrod Spattenhauer, the
German, tramp who was found guilty of the murder
of John Iveson, and who applied through his counsel
for a new trial, was to-day brought into court to re-
ceive sentence. Judge Henderson, in a lengthy
opinion, refused to grant a new trial. District Attor-
new Adams then agked that sentence be pronounced,
Spattenhauer was then ordered to stand up. He was
norvour, and kept his eyes intently fixed on the judge,
When asked if he had anything to say why sentence
of death should not be pronounced, the prisoner re-
plied in German that he never intended to kill Ivison,
but had stabhed him in the heat of passion, and that
only in self-defense. The Judge then, after admonish-
ing the prisoner to prepare for death, passed the death
sentence, and that the exccution take place in the jail
at Lebanon.

ROAD AGENTS IN ARKANSAS.

LirrLE Rocks, Ark., February 20.—On Friday night,
th: 14th, the Little Rock bound stage, on the Pine
Bluff and Little Rock mail line, was robbed about
three miles this side of Pine Bluff. The ‘stage was
stopped by three masked men in the woods. The
driver was unable to make effective resistance, as the
attack was so sudden, and as there was but one pas-
senger, avery young man. The robbers took over
fifty dollars from the latter and twenty-Seven dollars
from the driver... One of the robbers held the horses
while the other two ripped open the mail sacks. One
of the banditti asked, “ Which ouc of these sacks con-

tain the registered letters*** “1 don’t know,” ro-

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plied the driver, and the man proceeded to rip open
the St. Louis sack. Not finding any registered letters
or other valuables, he next turned his attention to the
Little Rock and Memphis sacks, which he cut open
and examined. Not finding anything, he replaced the
letters and at a yiven signal the party left. There
no clue as to the identity of the robbers.
CONVICTION OF A COLD-BLOODED ASSASSIN.

Peachy Swingler, the negro who killed John Ander-
son, also colored, at Chambersburg, Pa., on the night
of the 17th of December last, was found guilty of mur-
der in the first degre on the 28th,nlt. There had been
a dance at Anderson’s house, in which Swingler par-
ticipated. During the evening he became involved in
a quarrel with Anderson, the latter ordering him out
of the house, after Swingler had attempted to hit
Anderson’s wife. Meanwhile Swingler secured a
loaded gun at his mother’s residence, about a mile
distant. At midnight he returned to Anderson’s
house, and Joseph Lane, a friend of his, opened the
door. While Anderson was dancing Swingler forced
the gun against his stomach and fired, inflicting inju-
ries which resulted fatally in fifteen minutes. As the
wounded man fell to the floor the assassin struck him
with the butt of the gun. Swingler and Lane, his al-
leged accomplice, escaped in’ the darkness. The
negroes were both caught next day, however, Swing-
ler, while hiding under a bed. Lane is held as an ac-
cessory.

is

A BRUTAL BLACK’S SENTENCE.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 3.—On the 27th of last
January, Mrs. W. C. C. Foster, a widow, residing alone
three miles east of Memphis, was brutally murdered.
A negro named Charley Wood, who was employed on
the place, was arrested the following day on suspicion
of having perpetrated the crime. Subsequent events
proved almost conclusively that he committed the
murder. An indictment followed on the 15th of last
month, after an impartial trial, he was found guilty.
A motion for a new trial was made by defendant's
counsel, which Judge Ray, of the Criminal Court,
took under advisement. To-day the motion was over-
ruled and sentence pronounced. The court-room was
crowded eat the time and breathless interest was mani-
fested. Wood was as pale as his complexion would
admit of, and he appeared to fully appreciate the awful
solemnity of the occasion. When asked by Judge Ray
what he had to say why the sentence of the court
should not be pronounced, he said he said he was
innocent as the birds of the air. Judge Ray prefaced
his remarks by saying that the crime for which he
had been found guilty was one of the blackest and
most atrocious in all the annals of crime. He then
sentenced Wood to be hanged on Friday, the 9th of
May next. His counsel immediately gave notice of an
appeal of the case to the Supreme Court.

QUEER JUDICIAL PUZZLE.

The Governor of Georgia is trying to find out
whether three men, under sentence of death as mur-
derers, are really guilty. At the time of their convic-
tion hardly anybody doubted the correctness of the
verdict. A Sparta merchant named Rozier was killed
in the street at night, by a blow on the head, and
robbed of a watch and $142. Griggs, Lovett and
Barnes were indicated by the circumstances as the
perpetrators of the deed. They were seen near the
place of the murder just before the occurrence, they
gave accounts of their movements that were clearly
proved to be false, they tried before their arrest to mis-
lead the detectives, and at last they admitted. that
they saw Rozier as he fell under the blows of two
strangers. There was no direct evidence against
them, but many facts sustained the prosecution, and
the jury agreed without difficulty. Since then, a de-
tective employed by Lovett’s wife, claims to have dis-
covered the real criminals in two desperadoes at-
tached to Howe’s Circus. They were absent from
their posts on the night of the murder, when the show
was in that part of the state, and on their return had
a roll of money whioh they boasted of obtaining by
robbery. The watch stolen from Rozier has been
found in the possession of a negro, who says that he
bought it of two circus men. Either the three con-
demned men are innocent, or a clever scheme has
been devised to save them.

: ITALIAN MURDERER SENTENCED.

John Brown, the Italian, who was convicted in the
Court of General Sessions of manslaughter in tho
fourth degree in having killed John Regallio, a fellow
countryman, with a club at 16 Baxter street, on
Christmas night, was called to the bar for sentence on
the Ist, by Assistant District Attorney Herring. The
accused, &@ sharp-featured, wiry little man, was a fore-
man in Durand’s looking-glass factory, and his victim
an organ grinder. During a carouse Brown became
enraged and attacked Regallio with a macaroni roller,
with which he beat him on the head. Brown bore by
no means an enviable character, having been con-
cerned in several affrays. When the jury retired they
stood eleven to one for conviction of manslaughter in
the third degree. The dissenting juror held out for
four hours, and finally concurred with his associates
as to the guilt of the prisoner—the degree, however,
being reduced to manslaughter in the fourth degree.
The escape was considered a lucky one for the
prisoner. His counsel, Mr. Howe, before sentence was
imposed, called the attention of theBourt to the good
character that had been given | by his former
employer. *In passing sentence Judge Cowing ob-
served that the jury in the very mild verdict rendered
had exhausted all the mercy that could be shown.
Under the circumstances it was the duty of the Court
to impose the full penalty of the law— two yéars in
State Prison at hard labor.

A LAWYER’S MURDEROUS CLIENT.

ALBANY, N. Y., March 4.—Between twelve and one
o'clock to-day, John C. Hughes, a one-armed man,
entered the office of William J. Hadley, the well-known
criminal lawyer. In an excited discussion relative to
a pending action, Hughes attacked Hadley with a
knife, stabbing him on the right side, the knife strik-
ing a rib and glancing, and in the arm. Dr. Swin-
burne and other physicians pronounced the wounds
not necessarily fatal. Hughes went to police head:
quarters and surrendered himself. According to Had-
loy’s statement the assault upon him was premedi-

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tated. Hughes went to Hadley’s office to inquire
about a case Hadley had in charge for him, and was
so insulting in his language that Hadley ordered him
out of his office. Finally Hadley laid his hand on
Hughes’s shoulder and told him if he did not go he
would have him removed, Then Hughes drew a dirk
and plunged it into Hadley’s side, who fell back ona
settee. Hughes advanced upon him and struck at
him again, but Hadley raised his arm and received the
blow upon that. At this juncture Hadley’s son was
attracted from another room and seized upon Hughes,
who attempted to stab him. There was a man named
Dominick Fitzpatrick with Hughes, who also at this
moment interfered and pulled Hughesaway. Hughes
then left the office and walked away, but Fitzpatrick
insisted upon his going to the station-house, which
he did, and surrendered himself to the chief of police.
Hadley’s physicians think he may recover.

ANOTHER DEFAULTING CASHIER.

GRAND Rapips, Mich., March 2.—For several days
reports nave prevailed of a defalcation in the Lowell
National Bank. The matter has been kept very quiet
as the bank officers feared a run, and in the meantime
were converting their securities into cash, so that

| now they are prepared to pay all depositors. Clark,

who was made cashier of the bank eight years ago,
gave a bond for several years, but which has not been
renewed since 1875. The business of the bank was
really in Clark’s hands, but when C. 8. Wooding was
elected president three weeks ago, he commenced a
thorough examination, and discovered that Clark had
used the funds of the bank as if they were his private
property. So adroit was he in concealing his crooked-
ness as to successfully defy not onlg the Board of
Directors, but the National Bank Examiners. The
Board examined the notes rediscounted every three
months and Clark would have a package of notes for
one month which the Board examined, then taking
part of the notes he would place them in the second
and third packages before they were handed to the
Directors. In this manner the notes representing the
amount of his deficit were counted twice. Clark
turned over to the bank all his real and personal
estate, even to his watch and chain, and left Lowell
last Saturday for a new field of operation. He was a
member of the church, a teacher in Sunday school,
had no bad habits, but spent the money in riotous
living. Among his other operations he loaned $16,000
to a friend on worthless security.
ANOTHER BLOODY EXPLOIT OF CHICAGO THUGS.

CuicaGo, Ill., March 2.—A cold-blooded murder was
committed here last night that would have done
credit to the frontier of Texas. Three young men,
masked by having white handkerchiefs tied around
their faces, about ten o’clock entered the grocery store
of Godfried Rocknow, 2037 Butterfield street, exclaim-
ing, ‘‘Stand back! we’re going to rob this store.
Stand back !’’ The son of the proprietor and an old
man named Frederick Rhonow were the only occu-
pants of the store at the time, and they at first treated
the threat as a joke. whereupon the young despera-
does drew revolvers, repeating their demand. Young
Rocknow hastily retreated, but Rhonow stood his
ground, and raised a broom with which he was sweep-
ing to strike, when one of them fired, the ball enter-
ing his groin. He fell, and they hastily rifled the
money drawer, securing $32 in cash and $77 in scrip,
and then escaped. Mrs. Utel, who was going to the
grocery at the time, saw them come out, and run
across the railroad track in the direction of the stock-
yards. Rhonow died at noon to-day, and an inquest
will be held to-morrow. Two young men have been
arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the mur-
der. About midnight last night three men entered an
Indiana street car, while the driver was changing
horses at Western avenue, the terminus of the line,
and, presenting revolvers at the head of the conductor,
made him hold up his hands while they robbed him
of a $15 watch and $8 in silver. The perpetrators of
both these outrages are supposed to belong to the
same gang that about a weck ago entered an Archer
avenue grocery, masked, and robbed it of $100, firing
five shots at the clerks who pursued them.

IS IT ANOTHER HORRIBLE MISTAKE? :

WEATHERSFIELD, Vt., March 6.—Henry Graveline,
now under sentence of death to be executed on March
14th next, for the murder of Herbert White, through his
counsel, Messrs. Davenport, Deane, Eddy and Deane,
at Rutland, presented newly discovered evidence,
which, since the accidental and providential dis-
covery of a letter from Tiblow, Kansas, by a repre-
sentative of a Boston journal on the 4th of January
last, has furnished the key to the voluminous newly-
discovered evidence now about to be presented to
Governor Proctor. Counsel for the condemned man
ask a reprieve for six months, thereby enabling them
to proverly present Graveline’s case to the Superior
Court. Morton Smith and J. W. Deane, Esqs., who
went to Tiblow, Kansas, after Smith discovered the
clue to a missing and suspected party, and have ob-
tained affidavits which contain startling develop-
ments, and show beyond reasonable doubt that Grave-
line’s assertions of innocence are true. The excite,
ment is intense throughout Vermont and New England
concerning Graveline’s case. Impartial people openly
assert that Graveline shonld have a reasonable re-
prieve to ehable his counsel to properly present the
case with the evidence recently discovered, as well
also to lay bare to publicity serious charges against
an insurance company, and individuals who got pos-
session of Graveline’s property after his arrest in
October, 1876, valued at over $20,000, and its myste-
rious disappearance and sale for little or nothing as
compared with its real value. This new evidenre to
be presented will place certain persons in an unenvi-
able position. The prisoner is nearly fifty years old.
He has stoutly asserted his innocence throughout.

INCENDIARIES JUSTLY SERVED.

Charles Bernstein and Abraham D. Freeman, con-
victed of arson in the first degree in setting fire to the
tenement house 11 Ludlow street, were brought before
Judge Barrett, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, on
the 28th ult for sentence. Both prisoners looked very
much depressed and had evidently made up their
minds for the worst. By their sides were also seated
their respective wives, in whose countenances Were

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also exhibited the deepest anxiety as to the final re-
sult. An arrest ofjudgment was denied, as was also
a subsequent motion for a new trial. On being asked
if they had anything to say why sentence should’ not
be passed, Freeman averred his innocence of the crime
charged, and attributed his conviction to the preju-
dices of the District Attorney and the Fire Marshal.
Bernstein indulged in quite extended remarks. He
also avowed his innocence and averred that the fact
of his innocence would one day be proved. He
begged for mercy on account of his poor parents. In
passing sentence Judge Barrett spoke at some length.
He said that the case was so clear, so absolutely con-
vincing against the prisoners, that it was positively
difficult to charge the jury without seeming to close
the door against them. As a public magistrate he felt
bound to say that their conviction was just, and he
hoped that its effect might be wholesome to the com-
munity in view of the growing prevalence of incen-
diary fires. He then sentenced both prisoners to State
Prison for life. Both prisoners were greatly affected,
as were their wives, relatives and friends prescnt.
After sentence they were handcuffed and taken to the
Tombs, thence to be taken to Sing Sing to join Isaac
Pearlstein, a third accomplice, recently convicted of
the same great crime in the Gencral Sessions, and also
sentenced for life. :
THRILLING SCENE AT A MURDER TRIAL.

McLEANsBoro, Ill., March 1.—Henry Digby was
brought into court this afternoon on a writ of habeas
corpus. Gus Edwards, alias Gus Bolden, was put on °
the stand, and proceeded to give full details of the
murder of John Sinclair last fall. He said Henry Dig-
by was guilty of the murder. That he went with him
to the house where Sinclair was stopping and stood
at the gate. That Henry entered, and shortly a pistol-
shot was heare. Bolden beat a hasty retreat, and was
shortly afterward joined by Henry Digby. He asked
the latter if he had shot Sinclair and received the fol-
lowing reply: ‘I don’t know whether I did or not.’’
Things began to look gloomy Henry Digby said, as
Gus Edwards, the brute in human form, sat in the
witness chair, and declared before God and man that
he was telling the truth, the whole truth, and noth--
ing but the truth. The witness was cross-examined
by counsel for the detense, Judge I. R. Steele, for two

iong hours. He stood up before the most rigid cross-
examination, a regular Ben Butler cross-fire, and it
was whispered all through the court-room, ‘‘He is
telling the truth. Did you ever hear a witness tell
such a straight story?’ But at last he wilted. He
raised to his feet, and with trembling voice said:

Gentlemen, I have been swearing to lies. I do not
want to swear Henry Digby’s life away and send his
soul down into hell. Henry Digby is innocent of the
crime. We are both innocent of the crime. I do not
understand the nature of an oath.’’ At this juncture
Mrs. Digby, wife of Henry, shouting almost at the top
of her voice, thanked God for the deliverance of her
husband. The wildest excitement prevailed, and the
entire audience rose voluntarily to their feet. After
order was restored Bolden proceeded to state, in a
clear and decisive manner, that all his testimony
against Digby was false; that he had been induced to
make the statement through the promises and influ-
ence of one Henry Tarwater. Bolden was then re-
manded to jail. It is now the opinion ofa great many
that Bolden and another not yet indicted are the per-
petrators of the bloody deed. The whole case now
seems to be enshrouded in deeper mystery than ever.

THE GOOD YOUNG MAN’S SENTENCE.

At Cooperstown, N. Y., on the morning of the 28th
ylt., there was a large and more eager crowd in the
Otsego County Court-house than had been during any
previous stage of the Buel murder trial. The con-
victed prisoner was the object upon which all eyes
were turned, and various were the expressions heard
as to the change in his appearance since the
announcement of the jury’s verdict against him last
evening, but to a calm observer there were no per-
ceptible changes. Mr. Lynes addressed the Court on
his motion for a new trial, claiming that all the laws
relating to the legal definitions of manslaughter and
murder in the first degree were not read to the jury,
in connection with Judge Murray’s charge. He read
from 3 Wendell, page 159; Foster vs. People, 50 New
York, 598, page 601, and 37 New York, and numerous
other authorities in support of his motion. He also
read from The People vs. Stokes. The jury were
charged to find a verdict either in the first degree or
acquit. Théy should have been instructed to find on
the several degrées of manslaughter as well. L. L.
Bundy, on behalf of the people, argued against ‘the
motion. He claimed that the Lowenstein case was
presented in the same way by Judge Larned as was
this by His Honor. He occupied but ten minutes.
Judge Murray, after a short consultation with his
associates, decided that, in the opinion of the Court,
there were no grounds for a new trial. He therefore
denied the motion. Mr. Dynes then asked that the
time of execution be stayed so far as to allow of an
application to the General Term in May. District ‘
Attorney Benedict then moved for sentence upon the
prisoner. Buel stood up, and was asked by Judge
Murray if he had anything to say why sentence should
not be pronounced. Buel, for the first time, choked,
shook his head and the tears came to his eyes while
the Judge was speaking; then, by a great cffort, he
collected himself and was calm again. But when at
length the Judge solemnly pronounced the words,
“that on the 18th day of April-next he be taken to the
Court-house Jail and hanged until dead,’’ he lost his
self-control completely, and, putting his hands to his
face, sobbed loud and pitifully. There was not a dry
eye in the court-room. After the spectators had de-
parted and Buel had partly recovered himself he was
taken to the jail, and so the sad scene ended.

pee ---

At the conclusion of the Grisson murder trial at
Houston, Tex., on the 5th, when the verdict of the
jury sentencing the prisoner to life imprisonment was
read the murderer jumped. up, cursed the jury and
said they did not have manhood enough to hang him.

oe -

At Coneyville. Ky.,on the night of the 2nd, Joel
Carroll fatally shot a twelve-year-old negro girl. Car-

roll escaped.

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li

AN AMATEUR BURGLAR.

Startling Exhibition of the Intense Enter- |
prise of Western Journalism
as Narrated by

A DARING REPORTER.

Fired by Professional Zeal he Accompanies |
His Chums, ‘“‘ Buck” and ** Whisky Mike,”
on a Burglarious Expedition,

TO OBSERVE HOW IT IS’ DONE.

Journalistic work in the young and vigorous west
has a decidedly distinctive character of its own, in the
main, to the unsophisticated newspaper man of the
less exuberant eastern section of our common coun-
try, but the following bit of professional ‘“ enter-
prise,’’ as related by a reporter of the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat, is about the “‘ queerest ’’ we can recall in a
somewhat extended experience:

* Say, cull, the slick un’s lushin’ to-night.”’

« Worse’n a wolf.”

« An’ he’s got his lung full of wind, too. Did you
notice, when he pulled it out to square for the last go,
as how he’d a bundle bigger’n a book !”’

“I wuz pipin’ him right along during the whole
game.”’

“Tsay, “Buck,” ’twouldn’t be a bad idee to crack
the business to-night, eh ?”’

“‘Not much.”

‘‘ Ef we kin only reach the leather we’re hunkydory,
ain’t we ?”’

‘You bet.”’

‘Hanged if we don’t try it, cull. What do you say?
It’s your shot.”’

*T’m in with you.”

And “ Buck,”’ whose shot it was, and whom his com-
panion had been lavishing all sorts of slang and nick-
names upon, took his cue, shot for the “ big 10,”
which the writer had left almost falling into the
pocket, miss2d it, but rolled the ball into position for
the first speaker, who was behind in the game, and
who now drove in the 10 with a triumphant “ How’s
that ?’’ as he “ pooled,’ and left the writer

STUCK FOR THE BEER AND GAME.
The conversation reported above referred to a well-
dressed and half-drunken fellow who was taking a
drink, and passed between ‘“ Buck” and ‘ Whisky
Mike,”’ as they were and are still called, one night
three weeks ago,in a well-known saloon on Fifth
s‘reet, much frequented by bummers, and especially
the delight of that class of young men whose means of
obtaining a livelihood are vaguely characterized as
‘‘invisible.’’ The writer, who is in this article im-
plicating himself in an affair with a couple of these
whilém questionable lights of the lager beer saloon
mentioned, was in the house on the night in question,
and as he had an acquaintance, such as newspaper
men are privileged to have with the lepers of the law
and the Pariahs of society, had engaged with them in
a game of pool, to pass away the time and for what-
ever other general good might result from contact
with the two thieves—for “Buck” and “ Whisky
Mike ’’ are both thieves, one of them having served a
two-year term in Jefferson City, although scarcely
twenty-one years old, and the other having been time
and again before the criminal courts for larceny and
burglary charges, which he every time, in one way or
other,

MANAGED TO EVADE.

It was not that his ‘“brether-in-law had more pul-
litical inflooence than anny uther mon in the Foorth
Ward,’’ but somehow he was always in only for a day
or two, and then out again and at his favorite loafing
place, except when he was away on some ticklish
business or roosting in his mother’s honse, whither
he was always hurried when there was not anywhere
else to go to. The ‘‘amateur’s’’ acquaintance with
‘“‘Buck’”’ and “ Mike” had extended through many
months, and he had befriended both more than once.
They recognized him as a friend from whom they had
nothing to fear, and in whom they could place an
implicit trust. They spoke freely to him of exploits
which they almost hesitated to rehearse to each other,
although in many of the crimes they had been part-
ners, and once, when “ Whisky Mike” was under the
influence ot the first part of his nick-name, he insisted
in telling the writer how much he though of him, and
how easy it would be for a man with his instinct and
intellect to live in high and luxurious style by merely
assuming the directorship of a number of poor devils
like himself, who had no scruple to steal and very
little in

ROBBING IN THE OPEN DAYLIGHT.
“Buck”’ and “‘Mike’”’ had both offered to take the “ ama-
teur’’ on one of their expeditions, but the latter had
excused himself from the pleasure of accompanying
them, always saying for policy’s sake, that he would
take advantage of their invitation some time or other,
without ever having had any desire or intention to go
with them. This night, however, “Buck” and “Mike”’
were both sober, and their sobriety gave an air of
honesty to the task, which, the writer inferred from
the conversation at the top ot this column, they were
about to undertake—the burglarizing of some house,
one of the inmates of which was then in the saloon
with a pocketful of money, providing by his presence
the incentive to a crime of which he was to be one of
the victims.

“Mike ” and “Buck” called for their drinks as the
‘‘amateur”’ was pulling on his overcoat, and, after
exchanging a few words.together in low tones over
their respective beverages, turned to go, ‘‘ Buck,”’ as
he had his hand on the door, remarking :

“ Over the river, George.”

“‘ Bong joor, cull,”’ said ‘ Mike,’’ and the door closed |
after them.

The writer cannot now, nor has he ever at any time |

since the occurrence been able te understand what | |

sudden streak of enterprise could have induced him
to want to be a party to the mission upon which

THE TWO YOUNG THIEVES HAD SET OUT.
Whatever the origin of the inspiration, the door had
no sooner closed than he ran after and called “ Buck ”’
and “ Mike ”’ back.

‘*I’m in with you to-night, boys, if you say so,”’
the ‘‘amateur.”’

‘In on what ?” inquired “ Buck.”’

“ This job to-night.”

“« Wha-a-at job ?”’ again asked “‘ Buck,” in voice. and
gesture as innocent as an unshorn lamb.

* Ain’t you going to rattle somebody up ?’’

“ Say, “‘ Mike,’’ d’ye hear his nibs? W’y, cull, you
must a bin suckin’ de wrong pump. W’at er you
tryin’ to give us?’ This was “ Buck ” again.

* Well, I guess I was mistaken then,” was the apolo-
getic reply; “but Ithought you and ‘Mike’ were
either going to lay for that bloke inside and rob, or
else follow him home and plunder the house.”’

‘Oh, you did, did you? Well, you wur too fresh,
you wur,”’ cc eeigggae « Buck.”

‘‘T see I was.’

“I thought you knew better’n that,’
‘Whisky Mike.”’

‘IT will after this,’’ and that was all the would-be
amateur burglar or dilettante garroter had to say just
then. ‘ Mike” and “ Buck” went off together, and
the “amateur” returned to the saloon, where the
drunken party with the plethoric pocket-book was
sitting before the stove. Whether to inform the poor
fellow of the job that was being put up on him, or
not, was a question which took the writer just about
long enough to drink a glass of beer. He made up his
mind that it was better to let the chap sleep off his
drunk, and to inform the first policeman who came
along to

said

put in

KEEP AN EYE ON HIM.

Just then, like the characters in the play, walked in
“Buck” and “‘ Mike,”’ and, calling the “ amateur’”’ to
a position up against the wall, the situation was dis-
cussed, and it was finally agreed that he might go in,
if he would like to take the chances, and would
promise not to give the thing away until a proper
time had elapsed to give “ Buck” and“ Mike’’ an
opportunity to make themselves scarce for awhile, and
even then to print nothing that would be of any use
to the authorities of any other place than this. This
was all willingly agreed to. The writer then was tobe
one of a gang that was to enter a house in the northern
part of the city, and in which the young man described
as a “slick un,’’ and who was asleep ‘before the bar-
room stove, lived witha small family. And the diffi-
cult part of the matter was that the “slick un”
should be in the house and asleep when the affair
came.

“IT don’t want to crack ’im over the head,” said
“Buck,’’ ‘* becoz a feller don’t know what ’ll come of
it, ur else we might tackle ’im outside.”’

“How are you going to get him home?” inquired
the writer.

«Never you mind that,”’ said ‘“‘ Whisky Mike.” ‘I'll
work the bar-keeper for that. Here goes.”

“Whisky Mike ’’ tackled the bar-keeper.
words, but very significant

GLANCES AND NODS WERE INTERCHANGED.
The result was, the stranger was unmercifully shaken
on to his feet and informed by the gentleman with
white vest and apron that he could not expect to
make a Friendly Inn or Bethel Home out of his situa-
tion, and the sooner he started for home the sooner he
would get there. The “slick un’ made for the door,
and “‘ Mike”’ whispered, ‘‘ That’s all right,’”’ and then

Very few

turning to his companion, said:

‘‘He’s on the road now. He’ll goclean home ’thout
stopping to take his bearin’s onct.’’

‘“‘Mike ” evidently knew his man, for the trio, fol-
lowed in the weary footsteps-of the “ slick uns,” and
straight home he went, walking every step of the way,
and having sufficiently sobered by the time he _ got to
L—— street, he went in at the front door, which he
carefully locked after him as softly and easily as if he
were coming home from a temperance meeting. It
was then after one o’clock in the morning.

“‘ Now, cull, we know he’s there,”’ said “‘ Buck,’’ who
said this as if he wanted it understood that he was
speaking for both.

“Hev you got the pinchers all right?’’ asked
‘“‘Mike,”’ turning to his companion.

‘Don’t you forget it,’’ answered ‘* Buck.”

“ Well, we've got to wait now until the son of a gun
is out of the way,’’ suggested ‘‘ Mike,”’ “and we don’t
want to stand foolin’ around here. We'd better go

somewhere.”’
The trio went ‘‘somewhere,”’ and returned in about
an hour. During the interval the “amateur,” it is

needless to say, was trembling from head to foot and

making all sorts of ludicrous guesses as to the
POSSIBLE RESULT OF HIS EXPLOIT.

He asked questions that “ Buck’ and “Mike”

laughed at, and among others wanted to know if the

boys were supplied with “ pops.”’

«Pops !’’ exclaimed “ Mike,”” “ you must be crazy.
I ain’t in no hurry to run up the price of hemp, young
man.”’

The “‘ young man ”’ had an improved Colt’s in his
own pocket, but concluded that it would be best to
say nothing about it.

“It’s a mighty ticklish business, isn’t it ?’’ asked
the ‘‘ amateur.”’

“Ticklish? I should suggest,’’ answered “ Buck.”
“ Wait till you’ve got a half inch slug and a hundred-
pound bull-dog traveling after you in the dark, and
see if it don’t seem ticklish!”

A pair of stout, healthy jaw-bones began ticking
time to the rhythm of *‘ Sir John Moore.”’

Once more before the house, the trio were prepared
to work. The building was a rude one, and a porch
over the doorway offered an easy access to the second
story.

“ How are you going to get in?’ ‘This, of course,
from the *“‘ amateur.”’
“Tl show you,” and * Buck "’ took a pair of pin- |

cers from an inside pocket. It was an ordinary

pincers, the grip end being small and round, and
opening in semi-cylinder

just large and strong enough to enter a key-hole, grip
a key left in the lock on the inside and turn it.
‘‘ THIS’LL DO THE JOB, I GUESS.”’

This remark was from ‘“ Buck,’’ who started in the
direction of the dour. ‘“ Whisky Mike’’ and the
‘“‘amateur,’’ at the suggestion of the former, went
around the corner to await the result of ‘“ Buck’s”’
venture. He was to report at once if the front door
could be opened. While waiting for the third party
the “amateur” took some pains to explain to
““Whisky Mike’’ his position in the affair; he wanted
no share in the proceeds, and was not entering the
house for any other purpose than to gratify a curios-
ity to know how such things were done. If any
noise ora discovery ensued, the ‘amateur’ would
make the best of his way to get out; but, failing to do
so, would rely upon his reputation for honesty, en-
terprise, and being extremely curious, to clear him-
self of any criminal intent. He would in no way aid
or abet the burglars, but was merely to follow where
they led and look on at what they did. ‘“ Whisky
Mike ”’ said that was all right, and added:

‘But, young fellow, you’d better not give us
away.”’

“Not if I know myself,’’ was the assuring reply.

« Buck ’’ came around the corner in a few moments
with the information that he had picked the lock, the
key having been removed, but a d—d bolt stood in the
way of egress.

** We’ve got to go around,” he said.

And the two went around an alley and through a
gate into a yard. ‘“ Buck ”’ was soon

AT A BACK DOOR.

The pincers were produced, the key was there, in a
second it was turned in the lock, and in another
moment the door was opened softly. The three men
listened for a while eagerly, one of them being par-
ticularly nervous and attentive. There was no noise
of any kind—nothing to intimate that any one was
awake in the house. “Buck’’ pulled a handful of
matches from his pocket, pushed the door wide open,
struck a light and revealed the way in.

“Here’s the dining-room,’’ whispered
« Where’s the stairs ?’’

Another match supplied the place of the first and
«Buck ” pointed to a door in one corner.

“ That’s it, I guess.”

“Now, not a word,” said he to the “amateur.”
** Jest foller me.”’

In the dark the three men moved up the carpeted
stairs, the “amateur’’ trembling at every slight
movement. At the top landing a halt was made. The
silence and the delay almost drove the “amateur”
wild. The thoughts that crossed his brain during the
short time would have kept the Keeley motor going
for forty years. The snoring of the occupants of the
place fell on the ‘‘ amateur’s ” ear like rumblings of
approaching thunder, and when “Buck ’’ suddenly
struck a match a lightning stroke could hardly have
done so much towards prostrating him. Three doors
were

“Mike.”

REVEALED BY THE LIGHT.

“Buck pointed to the one in the centre, and motioned
‘Mike to the one in the rear. By his action he ap-
peared to intimate that he desired the ‘“‘amateur”’ to
accompany him, but the latter’s instincts suggested
that he had better follow “Mike,” and he did.
“Mike”? hada supply of matches at hand; ‘for, as
they crept along, his companion could hear the con-
tact of the square, little pieces, as ‘‘Mike’’ removed
them from a pocket. The two crept softly along, and
into the rear room. Once in, ‘“‘Mike’’ struck a light,
held it above his head, and took a survey of the situa.
tion. The match burned out and fell to the floor; and
then the “amateur’”’ felta hand pressing something
into his. The hand was his companion burglar’s, and
contained some half dozen of matches.

‘Give us a glim and you stand there,’’ whispered
‘*Mike.”’

The “amateur” lit a match and held it up. Looking
around he espied two men asleep in a bed at one side
of the room. At the side of the bed was a chair, with
clothes folded upon it. Other garments were hung
on the foot of the bed. The reporter had no more
than about <ime to notice these few facts when
‘““Mike’’ was standing by the chair and had his hands
upon the clothes. A nod signified his desire for dark-
ness, and the “amateur ’’ assistant burglar, who had
been assisting unconsciously, dropped the match,
and stood in the darkness, waiting for developments.
The time may not have been more than a second, but
it seemed the longest year the newspaper ‘ amateur”
ever put in.

He stood there in the darkness, willing. watching
and listening, and unable to see or compréhend what
was going on. The regular and measured

SNORE OF THE SLEEPERS CONTINUED.

Huge and cold sweat drops stood out on the forehead
of the “amateur,” and each hair felt endowed with
peculiar electric properties. Every succeeding
breath was cautiously drawn, and his nervousness in-
creased until he thought it would be better to be dis-
covered than kept in such intense suspense. In the
midst of this terrible agony something brushed
against him, and then pressed him forward. He
would have cried out had not the power of speech
been, as it were, temporarily removed. It was well
that he did not, as the contact was with “‘ Mike,’’ who
whispered:

“ Now, get out, quicker’n hell.”

How they got down-stairs out into the yard and
into the free air again, the writer will never be able
to explain. It is sufficient to say they reached the
street together and returned tothe Fifth street saloon.
The proceeds of the night’s exploit were: By “‘ Buck,”
$63.15 and a gold watch; by “ Mike,” $12.20, a silver
pocket piece, and a seal ring; by the *‘ amateur,”’ 0.

“Mike” and “Buck” “skinned out’ for some
other seaport the day after the burglary, while all the
detectives in town were looking for the burglars, and
the “amateur” kept his own counsel until yester-
day, when he received 4 highly ungrammatical and

| that he might “ give the whole thing away’

cacographical note from Cincinnati, informing him
just as
soon as he felt like it, which he has here done. No

The instrument was made | more amateur burglaries are wanted in his’n.

DOBBS’ DOOM.

The Shocking Charges Which Caused the
Bouncing of the Alleged Reverend Domes-
tic Tyrant from His Pulpit.

MEADVILLE, Pa., February 28.—The Rev. A. 8. Dobbs ;:
pastor of the State Street Methodist Episcopal Church ;
in this city, has been suspended from the ministry,
and ordered to appear before the Erie Conference for
its action in October next. The charges against him
were a long continued brutal treatment of his insane
wife; cruelty to his nineteen-year-old son, whom: he-
threatened to kill; and abuse of his wife’s mother.
Mr. Dobbs is a graduate of the Boston Theological
Seminary. He is one of the editors of the Chatauqua
Lake Assembly Herald. He has traveled widely in
European countries and the Holy Land. Twenty-five:
years ago he married Jane Ann Chase, the daughter:
ot Charles Chase, a prominent citizen of dicnaneonnt
Ohio.

_On Sunday, December 22nd, 1878, Mr. Chase iemants
dead in church. This led to the making public of the.
domestic troubles of the pastor’s family, and to the
preferment by the Revs. J. B. Correy and E. 8S. Young
of the charges, on trial of which he has been sus-
pended.

It was elicited that after his father-in-law’s death,.
Mr. Dobbs insisted on being administrator of his
estate. Mrs. Chase was opposed -tu his filling the
position. During a discussion of the subject on Jan-
uary 2nd, Mr. Dobbs charged his mother-in-law with:
having endeavored to break up his- — and: that.
his late father-in-law had

AIDED AND ABETTED HER.
It is charged that he compelled her to sign the papers’
necessary to his appointment as administrator. It
was testified that he called his wife “a liar, a- thief,

a spawn of hell, a hypocrite, and a villainous .

woman.” Charley Chase Dobbs, his nineteen-year-old
son, was present, and interfered in behalf of his help-
less mother.
him by the throat, and the two engageil in a desperate
struggle about the floor. Mrs. Chase despatched her

servant after the Rev. Mr. Seely, who is a near neigh-

bor. When he arrived, the struggle between father
end son was over; but they were glaring at.cach other
and ready to fight one another.at the least provoca-.
tion. Mr. Dobbs was storming about the room,
threatening to kill his son, and declaring that ‘this
she-devil, meaning his wife, had been slandering him-
for fifteen years, and that she was-no wife of his and
never would be.’’ The Rev. Mr, Seely told Dobbs that
unless he ceased his violent conduct he would call a’
policeman, and , sg
DOBBS BECAME QUIET.
It was also averred that next morning Myr. Dobbs:
compelled her to leave the house of her-mother and
return with him to Meadville. In trying to walk to
the omnibus she fell exhausted in the street. Her
husband paid no attention to her. Bystanders helped
her to her feet and assisted her to the conveyance.
The charges against Dobbs were soon afterward made.
Mrs. Dobb was returned to her mother’s,. where she
now lies, helplees- in mind and body. Charley Chase
Dobbs testified: that his father had eo a
tyrant in his family. ‘

The ground of Dobbs’ defense was thet hte wite was
&@ monomaniac on the subject of his character. She
had habitually charged him with misdeeds that had
destroyed his usefulness in may churches: He had
treated her as a sane person who. was bent on ruining
him. She frequently told him that she lovedanother
man before her marriage with him; that her mother
compelled her to become his wife, and that she hated
him. The treatment of him, Dobbs claims, was
shared in by his wife’s mother, until ander it his
health was broken and his better judgment destroyed.

The verdict suspending Dobbs from: the: ministry
was rendered after an hour’s deliberation by the
Court. .

OD -

‘' Pinafore ’ Ashore.

{Subject of Illustration. |
A traveling company began to perform “ Pinafore * 24
in New Brunswick, N. J., on the evening of the Ist.
The audience was large at the outset, but.the badness
of the singing and acting was more than could be en-
dured by the greater portion of the people, and they
soon withdrew. A party of students in the gallery
were among those who remained. At the end of: the
first act these students went out for a supply of eggs

and vegetables, and were back in their seats when the .

curtain was raised again, abundantly supplied “with.
missiles.
warned of what was to be done, had retreated to the
back part of the hall, but the performers had received
no intimation of trouble ahead. (Captain Corcoran ad-
vanced, guitar in hand, and commenced his song to
the moon. He had not sung a line before an egg,
thrown with unerring aim from the gallery, struck
him on the breast, and broke with a splatter. Little
Buttercup hastily retired, but the Captain stood firm,
while eggs and vegetables rained on and around him.

Sir Joseph Porter appeared, as though to expostulate,

and Was instantly Gripping with the mixed white and
yellow of the eggs that broke op him. Then the cur-
tain dropped, and the students hilarionsly sang
“ Pinafore" choruses. The offending company Swere
followed to their hotel and unmercifully badygered.

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Death of a Notorious Highwayman.

The notorious Guadulupe Celaya, leader of the
Mexican band of highwaymen who have been depre-
dating upon the mail travelers and others for the last
six months in Arizona, was killed at Terenate Sonora,
on the night of the 4th. Celaya and his band, ap-
proaching the point near where the Mexican Custom :
Guards were stationed, were halted by the guard by
“Who comes there?’ A voice responded, “ Celaya,”’
and at the same instant he fired. The guard returned
fire, three balls taking effect in Celaya’s head, causing
instant death. The twoother members of the gang
fled, pursued by tliree of the Mexican guards, who
have not been heard from since. It is believed the
whole of the gang are, or will be destroyed, as they
were closely pursued,

His father sprang upon him, caught .

The persons who had sat in the front seats,

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A Meniac’s Lively Performance.
{Subject of Titustration.)

The Dotroit Tribune gives a ludicrous but instruct-
ive account of the exploits of a maniac in the pictur
cpque village of Flint, Mich. He weighed 200 pounds,
stood six feet three inches in his gaiters, apparently
thirty years old, and his name was Shelton M. Thomp-
eon. He called at the house of Charles Smith, was
recognized as an old acquaintance, and he seemed as
sane as any other private citizen. Bedtime came and
he was assigned a couch and bade “Good night.” A
little later he appeared again and began to relate a
sad tale of domestic troubles. He said he wasan out-
cast and a wandcrer. Suddenly he became excited
and threatened suicide. A neighbor whohappened in
tricd to get him to leave. At this the man pulled out
a large knife and attempted to cut hisown throat. It
was then necessary to call in the sheriff and his
deputy. They responded, and all fell upon him sim-
ultancously, but he seemed possessed of the strength
and fury of a deamon, and hurled them totBe floor as
if they had been infants. Sneriff Phillips struck him
twice in the face with a pair of handcuffs with all his
might, and Officer Miller strock him s terrible blow
with a heavy hickory ciub, but the blows seemed to
make no impression upon him. He then started up
the stairs, followed by the officers, who drew revol-
vers upon him, but before they could fire he kicked

« them down the etairs in a mass, ad disappeared
quickly through a door leading into a large garret.
Here he entrenched himself, barricading the doorsnd
blocking thestairway with a bedstead. All night
long efforts were made to dislodge him, but they were
of no avail, and at daylight he was still “holding the
fort,” armed with a big knifeand a heavy club. The
neighborhood was aroused by his yelling, and by nine
o’clock the house was surrounded by an excited
crowd of several hundred. Various etratagems were
tried by a coupe of doctors—~one allopathic and the
‘tenon won a9 suffocating him with gas,

ammonia, &£c., but his dexterity at hurling clubs

' Fendered ft vety unsafo for the -man who took the

lead with the equirt-gun and chloroform. Throwing

I red pepper into his eyes from outside the window was |

" aleo tried, but unsuccessfully. Every little while
some one would volunteer to go up and fetch him out _

_ {fa dosen or more would go with him, but it wae not
tatilthe forencon wae nearly consumad that the re-

-quieits gumber of volunteers -was obisine’: The —
Prisoner had nqw nearly exhausted his stock of clubs
6nd had broken up the bedstead for ammunition. ©
This left the stairway cleer,ande joint rush being .
made up the stairs and through the scuttle-hole from se |

: the outside, the prisoner, faint with ammonia and |

‘ ceioratermn. won overpowered enmand and borne

ee

to jail in tetumph. :
Terrifying Parry Boat ~Qollsin, |
" {Mabject o Tlasération.) ie

Sax Faasczs00, February 24.—A dense fog which had ‘
visited the Bay, end. had prevailed almost continu- |

& about midway between the slip at the fost of Market |
. Steet arid Goat Jaland. On this cocasion the ElCapi- |
aS tan appears to have been-tardy, as the meeting with |

j yeeds trom. shore. Both |

Sag et good speed, El Capitan, here now.”
: on the bow, when the near. Dillon was held in $2,000 bail for trial.
|| , other not over two | Sees —
| lengths distant. From the close proximity of the a. Officer's. 1 Ghastly Arrest.
| boste end the directions they were steering a collision MADEMOISELLE MARGITTA RORERI, PREMIERE DANSEUBE. —kuz Pac 2. [Subject of Illustration.]

was unavoidable. The reverse signal was promptly
given on the Alameda and the whistle blown,and it is asserted and aleo

| contradicted that El Capitan's engine was reversed at the same moment. .——_.

But however thet may have been, the speed of either boat was not mate-
a rially interrupted, and the contact occurred with terrific force.
; The Alameda ran into El Capitan, striking her obliquely on the
port side, sbéut midway between the paddle-box and the bow. Being
lower in the water, the Alameda ran under the guards of El Capitan,
crashing into the hull of the latter, and opening a great breach below
the water line, through which sherapidly filled. The Alameda had on
s fair load of passengers, estimated at between 300 and 400. There Were
sbout 150 on board El Capitan. The boats remained locked together for
five orsiz minytes; and then swung broadside to and drifted apart, and
about twelve or fifteen minutes after the collision El Capitan settled

12 THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE. Mancn 15, 1879.)

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JULIA QUINN, A NOTORIOUS CHICAGO SHOP-LIFTERR.--SEX FRANK COSGROVE, CHARGED WITH COMPLICITY IN THE CORA
; PAGE 7. SAMMIS MALPRACTICE CASE, NEW YORK CITY.— SEE PAGE 3,

down in the water to her hurricane deck.
Great consternation prevailed on board the sinking
steamer. The passengers rushed in a mass for the life-
preservers. The people did not know how to wear
them, some having them on their arms, some on their
legs and one hanging to aside. One Chinaman pro-
vided himself with two of them. While most of those
on El Capitan scrambled on board the Alameda while
the boats were in contact, between thirty and forty
jumped into the water in their excitement, probably
apprehending that both boats were in a sinking condi-
tion. Those who went overboard, among whom were
® number of ladies, were provided with life-preservers,
and floated as comfortably as could be under thé cir-
cumstances, until they were picked up by the boats of
the Alameda and a boat put out by the Harbor Com-
missioners’ tug. It is believed that no lives were lost,
which, under the circumstances, is universally pro-
nounced providential.

Struggling ‘With Burglars on a House-Top.

[Subject of Iustration.]

Alfred A. Liscomb, the japitor of the Adelphi apart,
ment-house, who chased the girl-thief, Lena Wormer-
down the elevator, was again & witness against a bur-
giar in the Fifty-seventh Street Police Court on the
1st. He was sitting in his room on the fifth floor of
the Adelphi flats, which overlooks all the houses in
the neighborhood, when he noticed two men acting
suspiciously on the roofs of the private dwellings on
Fifty-third street. They crept around cautiously, and
hid behind chimneys as if fearful of being observed.

Liscomb, from his elevated post, saw them break open
first one scuttle and look down. Then they passed on
to another, which they also broke open. At the third
ecuttle, at 158 West Fifty-third street, they looked
down, and then returned to one of the other houses,
drew up a step-ladder from the scuttle and Jowercd it
into the scuttle of 158. Then they disappeared: down
into the house. Mr. Liscomb ran down-stairs and
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jher mother reside. ° 8 tht

« Have you any men repairing the roof?” he'asked.

“No. Why do you ask?”

«Then they must be thieves.”

. Amid a ‘chorus of screams, Liscomb dashed up-
stairs. The burglars had broken open two ‘trunks,
and were ransacking a trunk ‘contsining silver. They
heard Liscomb coming, and did not wait to secure

their booty. One had geached the roof, and the other

was half way up, the atep-ladder, when’ Liscomb ap-
peared. He grasped st the heels of the flying robber,

' but maiesed him. An exciting chase over the roofs to

. Seventh avenue followed.

Liscomb caught the last man, Joseph Dillon, a

. truck driver, of 114 Sullivan street. He fought des-

' perately, and shouted to his companion to assist him.

' The other turned back, and both men seized Liscomb.

; sf proved too much for him, and dragged him to
: the end of the roof where an alley-way runs between
! two houses. He struggled frantically or the edge.
' They endesvored to hurl him over. At this: moment

"| g moment's respite, an@ he tinproved it hy
the unknown man 8 “how in the thes. sted
r- | cowered and ran. Paying no attention to the cries of
‘ Dillon to céme on and kill Liscomb, he hurried down
- the ecuttle of the corner house and essspéd. -Liscomb
and Dillon continued fighting, and fought all the way
to the Forty-seventh Street Police Station, where the
|. . officers identified Dillon as an old offender. He ssid
to Liscomb : ;
“If that other fellow hadn’t skipped, I’d have fixed
you. If I'd hada revolver I wouldn't have been in

While Police Officcr Van Buskirk stood at Canal and
Forsyth streets, on the morning of the 4th, he saw a nude woman walk-
ingslowly and deliberately in the middle of the street. Taking her to
bea somnambulist, he determined to lead her quietly to the police
station. Accordingly he stepped into the middle of the street, and as
he confronted her was startled by her death-like pallor and fixed glassy
eyes. She did not seem to notice him and walked straight forward. He
rapped for assistance, and, taking hold of her, was about to lead her
tothe sidewalk, but she fell back into his — 5He lifted her to the
curbstone, and there found her dead. :

Having taken the body to the Eldridge street police station the officer
returned to the neighborhood whence the woman had come, and there
he learned that she was Mary Williams, of 40 Chrystie street, and that
she had been drinking to excess of late. She was twenty-four years old.

< eS OR OPC, nee ee Pe ee:

LIZZIE MELLON, A NUTED FEMALE “‘ CROOK,” OF CHICAGO.—
SEE PaGE 7.

Manon 15, 1879.

A Nevada Hurricane.

[Subject of Riustration. |

On Saturday evening last, says the Virginia City,
Nev., Chronicle of the 19th ult., one of the heaviest wind
storms that has been known for years swept over the
Comstock. From about eight o’clock the wind in-
_ C8@ased steadily up to nine o’clock, when it became
. dangerous to life and property. Everything movable
_ wes carried before it. Dry-goods boxes skipped along
the sidewalk until men scattefed in every direction
_, and got behind posts to escape injury. Loose ‘bricks,
blown from the tops of houses, and dead-walls, occa-
_ Sionally fell in the streets, and signs were carriedaway
.. 4n dozens. The current that swept down Unionstreet
"| Was terrific. Some men stood at C and Uniom streets
_, and watched those who came down. One old woman
was lifted off her feet and swept across C street. . Men

with heavy overcoats were unable to keep their feet.
At about eleven o’clock a part of the tin roof of the
court house was blown off into the street. The front
of the Exempts’ engine house was blown down. The
_tin roof of the Molinelli House was blown off, and
with a shower of bricks fell half block sway. Roos
Bros. had sixteen panes of glass blown out of a sky-

light. Three chimney tops were blown off the Inter-
national Hotel and one chimney was blown down.
The rear door wassmashedin. Wooden houses rocked
so violently that their inmates were unable to sleep.

—_ OOo

A Milwaukee German’s New York Spree.

[Subject of Illustration. ]
Henry E. Bergholz, a large, jovial, red-cheeked Ger-
‘man, with a face beaming with good-naturé, was
among the prisoners in the Tombs Police Court on

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TERRIFYING COLLISION, IN A DENSE

holz watched with evident feeling the other prisoners.
A tramp, dirty and hungry, whose face was covered
with blood, was suddenly seized with a fainting fit.
He was quickly dragged to a corner of the court-room,
and allowed to lie there until he

recovered. The simple German

. prisoner, with, his yellow dog,

stepped up to the tramp, and,

kneeling over him, wiped off the

dirt and blood stains from his face

with his handkerchief. Bergholz’s

turn came at last. His large yel-

low dog sat on its haunches and

watched his master’s face affec-

tionately.

Annic Donohue of 21 West street
tertffied that on the previous even-
ing the good-humored Teuton,
passing her on the sidewalk, threw
his arm around her and kissed
her, and that on her screaming
Miss Jennie Welsh attacked Berg-
holz, and soon a number of First
Ward lads surrounded him. Berg-
holz then drew a revolver, and
pointing it at his assailants, ex-
claimed : “Any man that comes
within three feet I shoot.”

Henry Bergholz- smiled and
bowed to Justice Otterbourg as he
began ‘his testimony in his own .
behalf. He had just come from
Milwaukee, on his way to Europe,
whither he was going to see his
parents. He arrived late that af-
ternoon, and at the ferry was sur-
rounded by hackmen and express-
men, who literally tore his coat in
their endeavors to get him as a
customer. Breaking loose from
them, he went back to Hobe-

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Coal Region Thugs Denounced. P

Rev. Father O'Reilly, of Shenandoah, Pa., created
an excitement in his church on Sunday, 2nd inst., by
announcing that he had received from Mr. Gowen,
through Captain Linden, of the Pinkerton Detective
Agency, satisfactory evidence of the existence of the
McNulty gang, said to be an organization formed with
the Knights of Labor for the purpose of destroying
property. Father O’Reilly said that he had received
full information concerning the gang, thet Mr.
Gowen’s published letter of February 13th was true.
He denounced the Knights of Labor and Mc¥Wulty’s
gang in strong terms, and finished by the
names of those men who belonged to his congregs-

tion. rate ag aga eas af
celebrated Mollie Maguire “squealer,” and A.
Learey, one of the most prominent leaders of the
Knights of Labor. McNulty himeclf was a shoemeker
of Shenandoah, but is now missing.

In his remarks Father O'Reilly ‘said they would by
held responsible for all crimes committed by fee
breaker burners. He called “Muff” Lawler 9.a0cri-
ligioug scoundrel, and advised his congfegation
drive M. O'Leary, a prominent Knight, ant of towa.
The “ Muff” was present and looked ecared, 1) then
went om to say that Mac, Moren, Maguire in@ Mo-
Nulty, of MéNylty’s gang, were real-chaéractem; and
that they lived in the neighborhood. Hé stated that
the namés in question were handed him by the Pink-
erton Detective Agency. He then begged his congre-
gation to promise him that they would withdraw
from the organization, never to rajoin it.. A large
number did as requested. He then defied the Knights
and thanked the faithful for theif kindness. This
action will probably lead to the diséolution of the
Knights of Labor as an organization. _ About one-half
a petition fo the Court; with

the object of embarrassing ie Gray Somtrtling

Be x si) ie
ee y

AND “EL CAPITAN,” CROWDED WITH ‘PASSENGERS, ON THE BAY,

dog and three hundred. dollars. He had had a little| Bergholsz paid hie fine, shook hands with Justice sine te sell tne eoiaiidiil and prove the

beer, only a dozen or so schooners. He was walking | Otterbourg and the clerks and the police, and,

Donohue, noticed that she winked at him.

whereabouts of thé breaker burners, are in a great

down Weat street, humming a tune, and, passing Annie followed by his yellow dog, started for Hobo-/| stew, and now request that their signatures be

ASSAULT OF CHINAMEN UPON
HAD BEEN

A

ABDUCTED BY

=

POLICE POSSE,

HER

IN RESCUING
COUNTRYMEN, VIRGINIA

A

CITY,

CHINESE GIRL WHO

NEY.

stricken from the document. Father O'Reilly believes
in the existence of the McNulty
gang, and so do the majority of
the citizens of the county. Seve-
ral parties who were named as
members of the “gang” have
gone to Father O’Reilly and made
affidavit that they were neither
members of the gang nor of the
order, and it was asserted that
other parties named could not be
found. Captain Linden went to
Shenandoah Saturday and hade
lengthy conference with Father
O'Reilly, giving him full particu-
lars of the whole matter.

————_—_~og— ——
Pieses Rew with Chinamen.
[Subject of Illustration.)

went to China Town to rescue her
were fired on by the Chinese with

ghot-guns. They returned the fire
with revolvers, and dispersed the
Chinese,

The woman, who. was rescued
by the police, was married in the
afternoon. The couple askad to
bb allowed to spend their honey-
meon in the County Jail as they
feared being killed. Last evening
the police went after the woman’s
clothes, and were again attacked
by the Chinese.

TAREE REALM AAEM E PPE NOR TMOG N ELLE I OM IRIE ES

14

THE PHANTOM FRIEND;

OR,

The Mysterv of the Devil’s Pool.

A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK CITY.

BY SS.

Author of © Prince Marco,
ARENA,” ‘* THE

A. MACKEEVER.

New York Tombs—Its SkeCRETS
AND [ts Mysteries,’ “* THe S-a-mM Let-
TERS,’ AND ‘S POPULAR PICTURES

or New York Lirt.”’

{The Phantom Friend,” was commenced in No. 67.
numbers can be obtained of any
froin the Publisher. |

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| Written expressly for Tuk PoLick GAZETTE. |

CHAPTER XIII.
(Continued.)

He spoke under intense excitement, and, although ex-
hausted from loss of blood, he succeeded in rising to his
feet and, with feverish strength, strode up and down the
room,

Laura lay back ina chair almost as one in a swoon, and
nodoubt she would have swooned had not her senses been
awakened by the sudden ringing of the street door bell by
the physician whu, a noment later, passed the threshold,
accompanied by Mr. Calvin.

By this time a terrible relapse had occurred in the con-
Mition of Mr. Benedick. The evident tending to concus-
sion of the brain, which had been fought off by his daugh-
ter’s extraordinary disclosures, now asserted itself, and
he fell back upon his pillow in a state of coma.

After the doctor had succeeded in resuscitating him, he
heckoned to both his child and the assassin.

For once the handsome knave displayed some emotion
in the presence of the approaching death that he had been
solely instrumental in igflicting.

‘What is it, father?’’ said Laura,
dying man.

‘*T want to speak to Mr; Calvin,”
whisper.

** fam here,” replied Calvin, ‘! what is it?”’

Meanwhile the physician had gone to a table at the end
‘of the room to arrange some strengthening mixture for his
patient, which placed hun from hearing the following

avords of the dying man:

F°°* you have robbed me—you have killed me! you have
stolen my property, of my dear daughter, you stolen the
virtue of both and you have destroyed the life of oné.
One atonement, not an atonemeiit in the eves of God, but
an atonement that I will avcept-as such, | offer you. You
can keep the money, which I-kiniow you have concealed

~ on your person—if you will solemnly pledge yourself to

; meke this girl your wite.”” > -

© ‘This raftian, man of the world threw # quick glance at
"the face of the dying father. He saw that the supreme
* moment of parting of body and soul, hadcome. He spoke

- fo word.

The father, thinking at his ‘last moments only of his
child’s ‘happiness, turned his glaring eyes upon her
seducer.. He saw there no evidence of the realization of

- his last hope: He strove to rise in his bed as if to utter a

‘ malediction. The effort was beyond his strength. The
death rattle gurgled from his throat even as he leaned
upon his elbow, and he fell back, with despair upon his
face, a corpse.

bending over the

he said, ina faint

: CHAPTER XIV.
LAURA'S LAST HOPK.

About a week after the terrible afd bruta) murder of
the unfortunate Mr. Benedick, Arthur Calvin might haye
been seen strolling nonchalantly ap Sixth avenne towards
the Park. He was well dressed, as usual, and-his appear-

z-ance entitled him to be classed among the ranksof gentle-
men.

His hat was set jauntily, a little on one side of his head,
and he smoked a fragrant Havana, while frem_ his coat
pocket protruded 4 small cane, the end of whit nearly
touched his left ear.

Many a young and pretty girl turned her head to look at
the handsome and captivating villain.

There did not seem to be a trace of care on his classic
face, and no one would have taken him for the desperate
character he really was.

He was not troubled with remorse, and his conscience,
if he had one, gave him no uneasiness.

Reaching Forty-second street, he cast a glance over his
shoulder, as if to see if he was followed,’

Though outwardly calm, severity ‘nq even careless, this
man had a mind which was ever restless and suspicious.
He had no reason to suppose that his footsteps were

- dogged by any one, but it was a principle with him to be
always on his guard and to never neglecta precaution.

A few paces in his rear he noticed a woman who was
thickly veiled.

Standing still a moment, he allowed her to pass him.

‘A pretty figure,” he murmured. ‘Ty should have
liked to catch a‘glimpse of her face.”’

The veiled woman stopped to look in the window of a
store, and Mr. Calvin, acting upon his usual plan, when
he deemed anything to be in the slightest degree suspi-
cious, determined to change his route, and walked down
Forty-second street and Eighth avenue, which thorough-
fare he pursued on his way up-town.

Several times he looked around, but be did not again
clearly perceive the veiled woman, thouglr he fancied he
distinguished her form in the distance.

When near, the Park, he entered a cigar store and
sample room, both of which had a dingy and dilapidated

* look.

To the bar-tender, who was chiefly
dirty shirt and a pair of bloodshot,
a careless nod.

* Any one inside!’ he asked, indicating an inner room
with his cane.

** Some of the boys,’ replied the bar-tender.

** Jimmy the Kid’ here?”

** Ye-a: been waiting for Vou all day.”

** Good enough.”’

Throwing his cigar away,
door which was marked ** private
sent it fiving open.

Half a dozen men were seated around a table.

remarkable for a
bleared eyes, he gave

. and, giving it a kick,

* fore them.-

Their dress was of a flashy, yenteel kind, and they wore
The practiced eve. however, could
heavy

jewelry in profusion.
tell that the diamonds vere not real, and that the
gold chains contained more brass than pure metal.

The faces of the men were a study.
remorsejess men were they,

late’at night, in the glare of the gas-light.

Calvin was welcomed with a shout of delight, anda tall,

OR, THE CHILD SLAVE OF THE

News Agent, or direct

Arthur Calvin walked up toa

A box of
cigars, a bottle of whisky and a caraff of water were be-

Hard featured,
flushed with frequent and
deep potations, and their eyes inflamed from staying up

THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE.

thin man, with a cadaverous countenance and two fright-
ful scars on his left cheek and forehead, the result of some
“carving ” affair, held out his hand.

This was “Jimmy the Kid,” a notorious bank robber
and body-snatcher, who had spent a considerable portion
of his life in the service of the state—a service of which
he appeared to be so enamored that he was still a candi-
date for further honors in that direction.

** Arthur, old pard,”’ he exclaimed, ‘I thought you'd
gotinto trouble and were never coming. Now you're here,
I'll open a bottle of wine, which I wouldn’t do for these
galoots.”*

** You can keep your wine,’ replied Arthur, ‘‘ Whisky’s
good enough for me. I'd have been here earlier, but 1
lost the blamed card you sent me, Inaking the appoint-
ment. I knew it was here, and I remembered it was to-
day, but I'll be hanged if I hadn't forgotten the hour.”’

‘* Lost the card’ That’s bad.”’ ,

“Oh, pshaw! If any one picked it up, he’d never
— J

* You can bet your sweet lite Captain Washburn would.
He’s shadowing this crib now,”’ said ** Jimmy the Kid.’’
‘But no matter. Take your booze and let’s come right
straight down to business.”’

Arthur Calvin helped himself to some whisky, lighted a
fresh cigar and placed himself in an attitude of attention.

**‘ What's the lay *”° he asked.

‘* We've got everything laid out for a bank in Hartford,
and all we wantis you, to go on a day or two ahead, and—”’

‘* Stop right there,”’ interrupted Calvin.

‘* What for’ asked ** Jimmy the Kid’ in undisguised
surprise.

“Pm notinit. A little while ago I made a big stake,
and I'm going to lay off fora time. Count me out, boys,
though I'd be glad to help you.”

Murmurs of disapprobation arose from the assembled
thieves, but their grumbling did not in the least shake the
determination of Calvin not to join in the proposed rob-
bery.

It wasgrowing dark, the room was full of thick tobacco
smoke and the men could just see one
the gloaming.

Suddenly the bar-tender‘s voice was heard exclaiming,
* You can‘t go in there, na’am. That's private.”’
A feminine voice replied, ‘* Oh, I must, I must.

there.”

Arthur Calvin started to his feet as if he had been shot
and he bit his lips 1n nervous agitation.
**Come back, I say,”’ cried the bar-tender,
speaking roughly.

**Unhand me, or I shail do you an injury.
armed,’’ was the answer.

The bar-tender fell back at the sight of a pistol, and the
next moment the door was flung wide open.

A lady appeared on the threshold, and, throwing her
veil back, disclosed to Calvin's astonished gaze the well-
known features of Laura Benedick.

**How in the flend’s name did you come here"
asked.

**J—I followed you,”’ she replied in faltéring accents.
He now recognized the veiled lady whom he had dis

trusted on Sixth avenue.

** But in what manner did you find out [ should be
here ‘”’

She held up a card.

‘*My card, by thunder,” said ‘Jimmy, the Kid.”

** Curse the luck,’’ muttered Arthur Calvin between his
teeth. .

“Oh, forgive me,’’ pleaded Laura. ‘It was my last
hope. You dropped this card which appoints a meeting
here to-day with your friends andI came. For some time
I waited outside, not having the heart to come in, but at
last I inustered up courage enough to enter.”’

‘* What do you want?” asked Calvin, gnawing the end of
his tawny mustache.

** Will you not right the wrong you have done me,” she
said, her lovely face being covered with crimzon blushes:

‘*T don’t know what you mean.”

“Oh, yes, youdo. For pity’s sake, make me your wife.
I forgive you all; the robbery, my father’s death, the cruel
wrong you inflicted on me, for with all your faults, Arthur
I love you still.”’

** To —-— with your love,” replied this polished ruffian.

She sank on her knees before him.

‘*For the love of heaven, hear me,” she said, as the
tears fell fast from her eyes.

He pushed her rudely from him, and she staggered to
her feet.

“Oh, God!’ she murmured, ** must expose my shame
before all these men and then be repulsed by the man
whose life I have saved.”’

**Get out of here,” exclaimed Arthur Calvin, ‘or I
shall have to help you. If I cateh you following me
again, I'll feed the fishes in the North River with you.”

** Do it,’ she said, her eyes flashing and all her woman’s
pridd asserting itself.

“Do it!”

**Ay, doit, Arthur Calvin. I have little or nothing left
to live for now. You have robbed me of all that makes
life worth having, and I would just as soon be dead as
alive.”’

Arthur took a rapid stride toward her, seized her by the

another's faces in

Heis in

this time

See, I am

he

roem.
which made her tremble.

appeared.
It was Tupa Dick.
“ Back,” he cried in a stentorian voice.

here just in time.”

The thieves sprang to their feet, upsetting the table in
their hurry and causing bottles and glasses to fall with a
loud crash to the flosr.

Some displayed pistols and others knives, but the negro
was undaunted.

He was armed solely with a long, murderous looking
knife, which he drew from the back of his neck in true

southern fashion.

‘* Let the gal go,’ he said,‘ ur ll let the daylight into
some of you, and when I get outside of here if a platoon
of police doesn't pull this place, it won’t be my fault,
sure

Laura Benedick hung half fainting upon Tupa Dick's
arm, but Arthur C alvin still retained his hold on her
shoulder, causin
which he gxraspec her.

“Cut the nigger,”’ said *‘ Jimmy, the Kid.’
deep and bounce the girl quietly.
lively as vou can skip.”’

With a de: >perate effort, Tupa Dick drew Laura away
from Mr. Calvin and retreated tow ards the door, which he
kicked.off its hinges by a blow from his heel.

Facing the crowd, he entered the saloon, Laura now
hanging on him like a dead weight.

he had fainted.

t tlering fierce cries and brandishing their w eapons, the

eangs pursued him.
Jon’t shoot, boys,’ exclaimed Arthur Calvin,

have the cops down upon us. Cut him deep.

quick.”*

But the nero, knife in hand, continued to retreat.

* Jiramy, the Kid,’’ made a dash at hin.

With a dexterous thrust of his bowi ie, Tupa Dick avoided
his onslaught and struck him in the shoulder.

With a howlof pain, the “ Kid” fell back,
spurting from his wound

“Down with him, down with him.”’
Calvin, himself rushing to the attack

TO BE CONTINUED.

“Cut him
‘Then scat, ion justas

‘you'll
cut him

the blood

shouted Arthur

anaeens 15, 1879.

GLIMPSES OF GOTHAM.

Musings in the Morgue and Reflections upon
the Grim and Ghastly Spectacle Pre-
sented by the Marble Slabs

IN THE DEAD-HOUSE.

How the Corpses are Photographed, and
how the Unknown and Friendless are
Hurried to Potter’s Field.

THE GHASTLY COMPANIONSHIP OF DEATH.

By PAUL PROWLER.

{Written expressly for THe PoLitce GaAzetrTe. |

Among the most curious places in New York City, 1s the
Morgue. Itis pleasantly situated on the Bellevue Hos-
pital grounds, Twenty-sixth street and East river.

It is a hotel presided over by gentlemanly clerks, and
all those whoinvoluntarily go there to register, go there
never to return. There are six slabs in the New York
Morgue, and above each is a water-pipe, from which is
continuously dripping chemically-prepared waters upon
the up-turned faces of the dead. Ordinarily the business
of the Morgue is comprised in the daily reception of about
three subjects, but there are seasons when the ghastly
harvest is increased to as much as ten or twelve per diem.

Many of those who drift into this hotel of the dead, pass
from it without ever being known, but the utmost precau-
tions are taken by the Commissioners to ensure proper
identification of the dead. The clothing is carefully pre-
served and placed where it is most accessible to those
seeking lost or missing friends or relatives. To still
further advance the identification process the dead are all
photographed. This is a ghastly operation, that once
seen, will alwdys remain in the memory, |.

HOW IT IS DONE.

Let us imagine ourselves mm the Morgue. The photo-
shapher has just arrived, and the clanging of the bell at
the gate announces the fact. It isa curious bell, this one
at the Morgue, and seems peculiarily suited for its pur-
pose.

In its reverbration there is an echo of that horror which
is always inspired by the knocking at the gate in. ** Mac-
beth.’’ As soon as the photographer divests himself of
his wraps and warms himself at the stove in the dead-
house, he smilingly rubs his hands together, and cheerily
asks, ** Well, how’s business this morning ¢ ”’

‘“*Pve got a gentleman who fell down the embankment
at Spuyten Duyvil, who has tobe photographed.”

‘All right,” the-photographer replies, ‘‘let’s get to
work, where is he?”’

‘* There!’ and as he speaks, the superintendent points
to a reddish-stained, upturned coffin in the corner, where-
upon the head or flap-piece of the box is removed, ex-
posing the head of the gentleman about to be photo-
graphed. A distorted face ! a face that has been mangled
and seemingly pressed out of all semblance to what it
once was! a face that is twisted and even seems gro-
tesquely humorpus. There is no trouble in taking this
likeness—the stander never moves. One negative is
efiough. It is proved, printed, mounted and placed in its
proper position by: the time the corpse has reached Pot-
ters Field, if it so happens that he is unclaimed. Potters
Field is situated on an island on thé Sound. It is beauti-
fully kept, and no one would imagine to saunter among
the nameless graves that it was the last home, or con-
tained the remains of those who, whatever important
factors they may have been in the-sum of ‘life, came at
last, to represent the algebraic x or unknown quantity.
These graves are dug by convicts as a punishment, and
there is nothing they so much dréad.

THK DEAD-HOUSE.

To return to the Morgue, not a cheerful place to return
to, but in this case a necessary one. The dead-house is
built out over the river, and is, therefore, parallel with
the street that extends to the dock, from which the little
steamer ‘‘Bellevue’’ starts on its daily trips to the
Islands. Beneath the floor of this dead-house the water
is heard murmuring and splashing and moaning as if the
knowledge it was possessed of, it was anx ous to disclose.
The imagination, looking through the crevices between
the planks, can picture the bloated faces and matted locks
of the cadavers that have been floating in and ont with
the tide for, heaven knows hov many days. On a long
row of trestles are arranged coffins, all of which are occu-

‘As in the case of the photographer,
| promptitude and dispatch are the chief characteristics of

shoulder and was about to eject her forcibly from the |

She uttered a loud shriek, for she saw that in his eyes |

“Its lucky
I’ve been spotting you lately and happened to come in’

' telligible characters upon a plain, pine coffin.

her intense pain, by the forcible way in

" and the coroner.

pied. While one glances around feeling none too well at
the sights and other attacks upon our senses, the coroner
and his attendant physicians arrive to hold an autopsy.
one notices ‘that

the procedure.
‘* There it is,’ said one of the Bellevue Hospital patients,
pointing to a coffin marked upon the lid in chalk, ** 29.”
Think of that yemen and women who expect to be

| buried in Greenwood, beneath aristocratic and expensive
rp =6All at once the door was flung open and a gigantic negro ,

marble monuments, upon whigh shall be inscribed at so
much the chiseled letter, the record of vour virtues in
this world and your expectations in the next!

Here is a hapless wretch whose entire summing up
amounts to but ‘‘ 29,”’ and that scrawled in almost unin-
His vir-
tues, if any, may have been fully equal to those alleged to
have been possessed by the most stylish corpse slumber-

| ing in that beautiful cemetery overlooking New York Bay.

Furthermore, ** No. 29°’ may have been of some import-
ance and usefulness in his day—may have been Al in
Lloyds’ register of human worth. He may have been in
the habit of signing checks, or driving fast horses, or

, hiring boxes at the opera, or indulging in any one of the

peculiarities that mark the man of social position. And
there may be in some attic of this great city a wife and
little ones, who are still wondering what has become of
husband and father since he started out to provide for
those he leved.

And all that remains is ** 29!" But here comes the doctor
Quick ! off with the coffin-lid! Let the
autopsy begin. I wall not describe the autopsy; itis neces,
sary todraw the line in descriptive license somewhere,
and I prefer todraw it here. For those who are unfamilar
with scenes of this kind it is better they remain in bliss-
ful ignorance. The details are most revolting, and would
simply add to the horrors of death, which, under the most
favorable circumstances, is horrible enough.

FREQUENTERS OF THE MORGUE.

An examination of the statistics will show that those
bodies which are recovered from the waters or found in
the streets are of
suicides, or drunks. In too many cases, voung and beauti-
ful girls find their way after death to this Twenty-sixth
street charnel- house there, within the last four
vears, at least a dozen corpses of young women who had
ever¥ personal infication of having been reared in refine

three classes—victines of accidents,

I saw

ment. From the country they came, fresh, rosy, clean
and pure; from a blessed infancy and wholesome child-
hood in some decent farm-house, where father and mother
are rustic and innocent as babes; where the most import-
ant book is the Bible and the only newspaper is a religious
| weekly, and the simple pleasures an apple-bee or quilting
| frolic, and the dress is homespun, and for Sunday gear, a
calico; and kid gloves are a fiction, and the sinful horrors

, of the city as fat away, as vague, as unreal as hell.

And the ambitious girl comes up to the maelstrom of
New York to work in shop or factory, and looks about her,
a bewildered thing. The cheap hat grows common in her

| Sight, the Sunday calico a thing to be ashamed of, and,

instead of hoarding her dimes in a neighboring bank, as
was her childish dream, she wastes them on brasea. finery
and hideous gauds.

By small degrees, evil associations, idle talk; that soon
grows shameless; foolish books, to be replaced, gradually,
by works and prints obscene; vice, that seemed at first
too dreadful, grows familiar, then beautiful. and: after-
wards necessary. Aye! necessary. ‘Tis an easy.thing to
fall, as easy as breathing, and everywhere some soft,
insidious lurking devil hides, to drag such an one down,
but who shall raise her?

There are hells below hells, and lowest depths to every
deep, and the first step is only the first. While beauty
lasts, or the youth that stands in its stead, these find easy
lives, spiced food and wines, rich clothes, fine furniture
and hiveried equipages, and grow plump and white, and
insolent with puerperal sin. But, sooner or iater, the
poison works. Yonder hospital receives them, cures them
in part and sends them back, broken in health and cheap-
ened in value, to lower haunts, from whence they come
again, are returned again, each time to deeper depths, to
resort, finally, with the filthiest of the filthy, the vilest of
the vile, or be sneered at, flouted, cursed, kicked and _ re-
jected by the scum, the offscouring of creation, and then,
at last—the Morgue.

SEEKING THE DEAD.

There isn’t a day passes but somebody calls at the
Morgue, looks over the register and asks to see the stock
on hand. They are always those who are in quest of mis-
sing people, and this city takes the palm for being the
metropolis from which the greatest number of citizens can
disappear daily. In one of Nathaniel Hawthornes short
stories, the scene of which is located-in-Lendon, there is
told about a man who kissed his wife good- by, one day,
and walked merrily down on the sunny side of the street.
For some incomprehensible reason he never returned, but
took lodgings in the next street, where, for twenty years,
he lived, and then died, the wife wondering all the
time why he never appeared. It is this class of people who
are inquired about at the New York Morgue. _ If this city
cannot furnish its sufficient quota of missing persons, we
can call upon such centers as Chicago, Baltimore, Boston,
Philadelphia, Haverstraw, which are continually sending
us merchants who arrive here all right, but who never
seem to get any further than their hotel, after which they
are entirely lost sight of. These are also looked for at the
Morgue and in some instances found.

There is no gainsaying the fact that the Morgue
is a necessary though somewhat sombre - -institu-
tion. It serves its purposes fully. In Paris it is situated
on the Isle de Cite, just within the shadow of the Church
of Notre Dame.

It is the custom every night of the working elnaabe who
are compelled to cross the bridges leading past the place
to file through the passage ways where the bodies are ex-
posed behind the glass partition. Just above where the
Morgue is located, the Seine breaks and passes on both
sides of the Isle de Cite, and it is, therefore most con-
veniently placed to catch the floating bodies as they. come
down the river in their cousse to the sea.

It is no uncommon spectacle, that of young girls pausing
and gazing upon unfortunate sisters who had jumped from
a life of shame into the river, and expressing no more
émotion at the sight than they would experience in- the
selection of anew ribbon. At one time, the suicides of
young women in Paris were so numerous that the Morgue
was found inadequate to hold them. The municipality
found it necessary to place a check upon this wholesale
destruction of feminine life. And they did-it in the fol-
lowing manner: An edict was published in all the papers
stating that every female body found in the Seine should
“be exposed naked to the gaze of every one- for : 80 many
hours, instead of kindly being covered with cloth; as had
been the previous practice. From that very. moment the
female suicides suddenly dropped eighty per cent., and
the Morgue was found amply sufficient for its purposes.

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC CASE.

Perhaps there never was such a horrid collection of
pictures as that to be seen in the glass case in the New
York Morgue proper. There are the countenances there
of men, women and children, which express every con-
ceivable shade of the death agony. As I have stated
above, some of them are almost whimsical, possessing a
sardonic leer that suggests the grotesquerie of a
carnival mask, but in the main they are repulsive,
hideous features and Ido not advise my readers to go
there out of mere idle curiosity, but, if they do, they will
be supplied with a whole herd of night-mares.

The most peculiar of these pictures are those of
dered people, the ghastly wounds being reproduced
scientific fidelity... By the same token they are the
fascinating, holding one spell-bound, as they glare
him from behind the glass.

What a strange cabinetit is! Here are perhaps over a
hundred and fifty people who never saw each other in
life and yet who have been stood up before the same
camera, photographed by the same operator, and now
systematically arranged against the same wall. It is the
ghostly companionship produced by that common enemy
—death.

mur-
with
most
upon

What They Say of Us.

Shenandcah, Pa., Herald. :
The New York NATIONAL PoLic# GAazeTTE is the most en-
terprising paper of the kind now published.

Littlestown, Pa., News.

THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE gives a handsome group
of authentic portraits of the contestants in the great bil
liard tournament in New York, besides hosts of other in-
teresting illustrations.

San Berrito Advance, Hollister, Cal.

THE NATIONAL PoLice GAzeTTE is a lively paper. It con
tains all the news of criminal doings throughout the
Union, accompanied with graphic illustrations.

The Mountain Messenger, Deacnierille, Cal,

THE NATIONAL PoLicr GAZETTE of a late issue,
ant, lively, enterprising nuinber. The
tains a striking sermon on the text, “The Chinese must
go.” Ita capital hit. The Gazette is decidedly thé spici
est of all the spicy pictorials.

is a bril-
first page con.

Mountain Signal, Dahlonega, Ga.

THe Nations Poticr Gazette is undoubeted!y the leadin:
paper of its kind in the Union. Within the last few
mouths there has been a wonderful improvement in the
tone and general appearance of this splendid illu-
trated paper. Itis fully apace with the times and lack-~

size,

i not in enterprise

Marc# 15, 1879.)

THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE.

15

The Grand, Gorgeous, Resplendent, Bang-up,
Utteriy Incomprehensible ‘‘ Black Crook.”

There can be no further excuse for young men spending
their evenings in low: bar-rooms, in billiard saloons, in the
back parlors of cigar stores, where draw-poker is always
on the cards.

Neither js it necessary for them to prowl through the
streets, running the risk of being clubbed by policemen
and being thrown into a dungeon cell. ;

Nor are they compelled to haunt picture galleries, where
there might be something in the picture line bad enough
to offend Mr. Comstock, or to pass their hours after dinner

- in stupid libraries.

Thanks to the philanthropic generosity of the manage-
ment of Niblo’s Garden, and to the lavish expenditure of
the Kiralfys, the ** Black Crook” is running at Niblo’s,
where it was originally produced.

It is running well, and why shouldn’t it? Any one could

run well with about three hundred legs.

And that is what the ** Black Crook ” possesses. I do
not mean the gentleman who plays the part, but the piece.

These three hundred legs make the drama a magnificent
caterpillar, as it were, brilliant in color, and a great deal
more rapid in movement than any caterpillar that I have
ever had the pleasure of knowing personally.

The play is destined for a long Season, and therefore, as
I say, the evenings of the jeunesse doree, Or, rather, jernesse
trade dollar, will be fully occupied.

How charming to sit in a front row of seats and watch
the swaying ballet as it comes down, with locked arms, to
the footlights and then breaks to let the premiere float on
wings of gauze to just the very nail in the plank below
her upon which it is necessary for her to poise « /a tip-toe,
precisely at the moment when the grand crash of the band
comes, and the bouquets begin to rain upon the stage in a
frequent shower. *

And then how kind in the young men to meet the poor
ballet-girls at the stage duor and see them to their humble
door, merely to save them their car-fare.

For you Know all ballet girls—or at least all I ever
heard of—are half-starved creatures who have bed-ridden
mothers to support. ;

In fact, if ever I get to be the manager of a theatre and
produce a spectacular drama, I will discharge every hal-
let girl who hasn't a bed-ridden mother to support.

To do otherwise would be to play in the face of all tradi-
tions.

The present production of the
Theatre and the Kiralfys credit.

Before it is done away with it will do them infinite
credit—at the bank, if lam not mistaken. They have been
to great expense, more than they originally anticipated.

-Tam led to this conclusion by the fact poor Stalacta, Miss
Belle Howitt, has not reallv sufficient clothes. for this
phenominal winter. There are a good many in the ballet
in the same fix, and if there is any stock left over from
that intended for the yeliow fever sufferers, it should be
promptly sent to the theatre for distribution.

On the first night the spacious theatre was jammed to the
roof. Hundreds stood up, and hundreds more in the vari-
ous bars, unable to get in, were endeavoring to stand up
the drink-mixers. There were the usual waits—too many
waits for a light price—and it was long after midnight
when the curtain fell.

The scenery is really magnificent. and if I could have
my hall-rvom fixed up in the style of the grotto of Stulucti,
I would be perfectly content. All the ‘ballet movements
are resplendently clever, the amazons being precisely like
those in Brazil, and the demons dead images of those in a
country where they don’t have such winters as these.

De Rosa, the premiere, isa charming dancer, and the
California action of Bonfanti, in seceding, left matters
entirely in her own feet. L knew Bonfanti in Philadel-
phia many years ago, when the Centennial was not
dreamed of. She was dancing at Fox’s, and while there
acertain bank clerk danced off with the money—some
thousands—which she had been foolish enough to give to
him to invest.

Mile. Pagaleri is also an entrancing danseuse.

But why pretend to go into details. To see the ‘* Crook ”’
you must visit the theatre, and must watch keenly every
incident of this gorgeous monstrosity, this glittering pro.
duction of accident, for such 1s all it is.

This title is decidedly amisnomer. It ought to be called
the ‘* Pink Crook,” or the‘ Red Crook,” or any othe
crook, if we take the costumes of the ballet into consider-
ation. -But before we further criticise the grand spec-
tacular sensation which is now drawing the town, let us
give a brief history of this phenomena! drama.

Let us begin at the beginning.

There are still two leading, live theatrical managers in
New York. One is Harry Palmer, the other. Jarrett.

In 1866 Palmer inet Jarrett, and they pooled up $20,000,
to go into a big spec.

They went over to London and dropped into Astley’s
Theatre, where they saw the Biche wa bois,

“They bought it right out, costumes and all.

The last scene cost them $15,000 in gold.

Palmer and Mattison then wrote a play called **Undine.”’

It was intended to reproduce the effects of the ** Black
Crook”? in this.

Man proposes, but—you Know the rest.

There has always been something crooked about this
drama.

Jarrett meanwhile had engaged the Academy of Music.

Fire 1s a great destrover.

The Academy was burned down.

Jarrett, like Nero, fiddled while Rome was in flames.

We mean that he drank hot Scotch, until he saw that
the Academy as a place of amusement had gone up, fora
considerable period.

He had previously tried to lease Niblo’s.

Wheatley was the proprietor. Wheatley asked a big
rent, at$o00, While the Academy was burning, Jarrett—
sly fox, that Jarrett—went over to the Metropolitan Hotel
and woke up Wheatly.

They re-commenced the conversation about the lease.

Boy brought in the morning papers.
the fire, ete.

Jarrett sat on the morning papers.

At the same time he sat on Wheatley.

It was ten minutes of eight o'clock when they
contract very advantageous to Jarrett.

Possibly there was something in this that Jarrett—d on
Mr. Wheatley’s feelings.

The thing was done.

**Crook,”’ does both the

Late account of

sizned a

Wheatley had arranged with Barras, a New York drama-
tist, to produce the Black Crook.’ and had already paid
him $2,000.

Biche au Bois Was discarded, and its scenes, properties,
wardrobe and ballet troupe, introduced into the ~ Black
Crook.’

[It cost the three proprietors, Wheatley, Jarrett and Pal-
mer, $50,000 to put the piece on the stage.

Each week they made at the lowest computation $7,000
They realized $150,000 each from it

Barras had quite an em-lrrrass de cichexse
He got £100.000,

Happy dramatist !

Blissful manayers

WAFTINGS FROM THE WINGS. |

Square Crook!!!

The first performance was in 1866, Septemher 12.

Boniface played Rudolphe, Miss Wells, Barbara; Mr.
Blaisdele, Wolfenstein: Morton, the Black Crook; Hernandez
Foster, Dragon fin, and Annie Kemp, Stalacta.

January 4, 1868, saw the 465th and last performance of
the ‘* Crook." It was fevived December 18, 1871, and

again August 18, 1873, running until December 6. It was’
| also produced at the Grand Opera House, November 25,

1874.

One word more. Before you visit Niblo’s allow me to
warn you against looking too intently through your opera
glass at a blonde young woman with blue eyes who 1s a
cory phee. .

You can’t miss her by this description.

I do not intend to explain, but simply reiterate that if
you do you will have to accept a challenge from the

MARQUIS OF LORGNETTE.

Green-Room Gossip.

Mme. Gerster likes ‘‘ Pinafore.”*

Now if she would only
sing -Josephine* :

The Saturday night picnic at the Fifth Avenue was a
delightful affair.

Madaine Marie Rove has made a great hitas Paming, in
the ** Magic Flute,”

Frank Mayo is coming back with "* Davy Crockett” to
the Grand Opera House.

** Texas Jack *’ has been in the oil region, but, from all
accounts, has not struck oil.

Mme. Ponisi, of Wallack’s, is still suffering from her
fall, which was by no means a very Ponisi one.

Mr. J. Graf, late of the Kellogg Company, has been en-
gaged for the part of .t/exix, in the ** Sorcerer.”

Mr. J. N. Pattison, the eminent pianist, has just re.
turned from a highly successful trip through the states.

It's merely the play and not the audieftce that is
** Spell-Bound ” at Wallack’s. A new piece is underlined

Mr. J. B. Studley-has played Nathan successfully. We
mean Nathan, the apostate in ‘‘ Leah ’’—not ‘* Nathan
Hale.’’

Producing Gilbert’s play at the Park wasn’t any Abbey-
ration of the mind. And how good Mrs. Booth is, although
she is so ** tart.’’

Stephen Fiske, after a varied experience. as journalist,
author, editor and manager, has returned tu his tirst love,
and is now connected with the Spirit of the Times.

Sothern has started from his southern..cliime and is
reaching London via Milan, His physiciansofiered more
rest, but the more he rested the more restless he became.
He will reach here in May.

The knave of diamonds are still industriously at work.
The latest attempt at robbery was of the jewele.of Mme.
Modjeska. Fortunately one of the pet alligators of the
Countess scared the would-be thief away. 3

The production of *‘ Lohengrin” at the Academy of
Music by Her Majesty’s Opera Company, was attended
with great success. Mme. Gerster, as Ele, and Signor
Campanini, as Lohengrin, divided the honors.

They have the ** Pinafore’ craze badly in the City of
Brotherly Love. Only four regular compahies are doing
it in that pleasant hamlet, and the minstrel companies
chip in, each with a more or less burlesque performance
of the reigning favorites of the boards. ‘

The shadow of the great disaster at the Brooklyn Theatre
several years ago has not yet passed away. The relief
committee announce that their funds are completely ex-
hausted, while about fifty families are still in need of aid.
The relief fund amounted to $47,000. Measures will be
taken to raise a further sum.

It is fortunate for Her Anton Rubenstein, the famous
pianist, whom it is said is threatened with the total loss
of his eyesight, that he is possessed of so good .a memory
that he can play any composition he hasever heard, with-
out the score. This is one of those rare cases where
muemonical ability and large development of the aural
sense are valuable acquirements. z

The late Colonel William Ross, who died at Providence,
R. L, on February 24, purchased the first choice of tickets
at Jenny Lind’s first concert there, for $653. He had the
ticket framed and hung it on the wall of his residence in
that city, where it may still be seen. It has the autograph
of Jenny Lind and the endorsement of P. T. Barnuan, and
yet this ticket wouldn't even pass a fellow into a walking
match to-day. ;

Some adventurous genius, yclept Raymond, organized a
‘Pinafore’? company, which, with rare modesty, he
advertised as from the Fifth Avenue Theatre, and started
into the unknown seas of Jersey. The illy-manned craft
was totally wrecked at New Brunswick, N. J.,on February
28. The good ship struck a reef composed of stale cabbages
and ancient eggs, and several of the unlucky mariners
became animated targets for the inhospitable natives.

Mile. Ambre, the famous African prima donna, whose
peculiar relations to the King of Holland have occasioned
so much comment, is under engagement to Maurice Grau,
and will appear at the Gaiete, Paris, as Ju/i¢ in the Mar-
quis d’Ivry’s ‘* Lovers of Verona.’’ Caporel- is to be the
Homen, She will shortly be married to Monsieur De Beau-
plan, and there is some prospect of her making a visit to

this country, but there is a little ambre-guity about this
statement.

Once more Clara Morris, the actress, rises to the surface
of feminine foolishness, as a dispatch in the Herald proves.
On the night of March the 6th Miss Morris and her bus-
band, Frederick Harriot were among the overland passen-
gers from the west on their way east. 2

The train stopping for some time, Mr. Harriot was in his
state-room conversing with a friend, when Mrs. Harriot
called him to her berth, and, pointing out a fine-looking
man on the platform outside, uttered several words in a
low tone. Mr. Harriot at once walked out upon the plat-
form, and, stepping quietly up to the man, struck him on
the breast. The policemen and passengers crowded about
the assaulted man and asked the meaning of the blow.
The latter said he did not know his assailant. At this
moment Mrs. Harriot stepped to her car window, threw it
up and shouted :

** Hit him twice, Freddie, hit him twice; I told you to
strike him twice.”

Mr. Harriot then struck the man before him another
sharp blow with the flat of his hand, whith resounded
through the depot. The assaulted man then removed his
cap, = ad, stepping forward to Mrs. Harriot, said :

* There is some mistake here, madam; I know
you nor your husband; what does this mean?’

* You bowed tome in a street car in San Francisco,”
sid Mrs. Harriot.

neither

“ T was neverin San Francisco in my
aliswer,

life.” was the

The police threatened to arrest Harriot, but the assaulted
Inan gave them no encouragement, and all the parties
were again allowe:l to take their seats in the train.

We have -ufficient gallantry within us to commend Mr.

’ Harriotin reseuting at all times any insult offered his
wife, but it appears that his action on this occasion was
Wholly unealled for. Why Miss Morris insisted apon

Freddie’ hitting the stranger twice. we cannot under

|
stand, It isso peculiar a-request that-undoubtedly the

“the 4th.

nuinber has been played in policy all over the country by
this time.

VICE’S VARIETIES. °

At Mexicv, Mo., on the 3rd, Charles C.
killed by ** Sandy Bill’ Harrison.
almost from ear to ear.

Muldrow was
His throat was cut

ANGELL, the recently convicted Pullman Palace Car

Comp: efaulter, was placed at work as book-keeper
in the offediar stone shops, in Joliet Prison, an the
3rd, by théButhorities of the institution.

Epwarp Ingauis, Town Treasurer of Candia, N. H., was
robbed on the night of the 3rd of $3,700. Ingalls was called
out of his house during the night by strangers and gagged,
after which-the robbery was accomplished.

THE man Fred. Holtz, supposed to have been murdered
‘near Horicon, Wis., arrived at Milwaukee, on the 3rd,
alive and well. He had been at Horigon visiting his
brother. The mystery as to who the murdered man really
was is now more inexplicable than ever.

ANNIX Mrers, who was on trial in the police court at
Quincey, TH. yon the 3rd, for disorderly conduct, charged
her father with having seduced her when she was ten
years old, and with having repeatedly il!-treated her for
the past eight years. As she has had a clouded reputation
for some time her charge is not generally believed and
the court refused to entertain it.

A Deputy United States Marshal of the Sixth District of
Kentucky levied upon a freight train on thé attachment
suit of the Flemingsburgh and South Gap Railroad, and~
switched it off on a side track at Johnson Juncticn,Satur-
day night, Ist inst.. placing a guard over the train. On the
3rd a band of armed men came up from Flemingsburg,
overpowered the guard and took the train away.

On the 5th, Coroner Ellinger held an inquest on the body
‘ef John Schnetzer, the Geriman butcher of 233 East 111th
street, who was stabbed through the heart and instantly
killed Sunday evening, February 23rd, by an Italian sup-
posed to be Louis Palmero, at the corner of 107th street
and Third avenue. The inquest was adjourned to the 10th.
Palmero, the alleged murderer, was sent back to the
Tombs. {

On the 4th, an old negro, living two miles from Overton
Texas, under indictment for aggravated assault, choked
an old colored woman, who was the only witness against
him, to death. He then choked a little girl who was
present, and who had remonstrated with him, until he
thought her dead, and was in the act of throwing the
bodies into an old well when he was arrested. The little
girl will recover.

A BOLD robbery was committed in Champaign, Tl, on
the night of the 4th, by five tramps, who seized upon
Barney Lynch, a well known citizen, in an obscure place,
and, having beaten him severely over the head with clubs,
held him up and rifled his pockets. The police captured
the whole gang after a severe struggle, and they now lie
in the county jail, and will be indicted by’the Grand J ury,
which is now in session.

A tramp entered a.house four miles west of Springfield,
Il!., on the 4th, where there was alone alady, seventy-
three years old, helpless, in bed with rheumatism. He
asked for food, and she told him where to get it. After
eating he outraged her person, and then fled, coming
towards Springfield. The police are searching for him,
but without success. The old lady lies in a critical con-
dition. and may not survive. |

DETECTIVE KAvANaGu, of the Centra! Office, has resigned
his position in order, it is alleged, to avoid being put on
trial to answer charges of assault preferred against him
and gon ore Crowley by a respectable German woman, |
Mrs, Magdalene Schlee, whom it is alleged, thoze officers
illegally arrested in her own house. The lady states that
she was dragged through the streets by the hair of the
head and otherwise ill-treated by the representatives of
the law.

JOHN LINWALD, a young man recently arrested at Mani- |
towoc, Wis., for attempting to outrage Matilda Johnson,
was released by the Court at the instance of the girl’s
mother, on condition that he leave the country immedi- '
ately. She also gave him inoney with which to go, but
upon being released from the jail he. went only toa
neighboring town, and after spending his money returned
to Mrs. Johnson’s, signifying his intention of staying, and
threatened if they molested him again it would be at their
peril. The Sheriff, hearing of his whereabouts, went out
on the night of the 2nd and re-arrested John, who was
thought to bé not mentally responsible, and was not aware
of the enormity of his crime. But he turns out to be a con-
summate knave as well as a fool. He will now suffer the
full penalty of the law.

IN Springfield, I1., between twelve and one o'clock on
the night of the 2nd, a gang of roughs visited a little
restaurant and broke open the door, fired pistols through
the windows and smashed a number of window glasses
with paving bricks. Anegro man named Keeling, who
attended as waiter in the place, wasin the melee shot in
the lower part of the abdomen by John Govea. The ball
passed through the body and lodged near ,the kidneys.
Govea was arrested and held to await the result of Keel-
ing’# injuries.

In Mayville, Mo., on the evening of the lst, while a
somewhat notorious character by the name of ** Omaha
Charley,” lately employed by Jake Schroeder as bar-
keeper in his saloon, was in attendance there, John Mahan
and Jake Layton went into the saloon, and Charley en-
gaged in conversation, in which a dispute arose, and
Charley ordered them: out of the saloon, at the same time
reaching for his revolver. Mahan interfered, and was
immediately shot, twice in the head and once in the
bowels, the wounds being pronounced fata}.
immediately placed in jail.

Charley was

At Jdcksonville, Tex., on the 3rd, a hardware merchant
and Postmaster Luke Edinondson bad aconversation with
Joe Douglass, also a merchant. Douglass, by way of a
joke, aliuded to some private affair of FKdmundson, on
which the latter was tender. He became angry, when
Douglass apologized and explained, and thought the mat-
ter ended. Douglass subsequently went into the post-
office. Edmundson seized a shot-gun and deliberately
fired on Doug!ass. The shot tore away one side of his
head, spattering the blood and brains around. Douglass
breathed forty minutes and expired.

A PARKING emeute on the part of half adozen notorious
outlaws confined in jail at Corsicana, Texas, occurred on
They procured Enfield rifles and six-shooters,
and one of the number, Jesse Rosco, took the lead. He
knocked down the guard and covered the door until bis
confederates got out of the building, when a)!
escape through the vate to the back yard.
ture assistance came to the jail

made their
At this june
authorities, and a live!s
street skirmish ensued, in which two of the prisoners

were badly wounded. tesco mounted a saddie horse
hitched on the street and made good his escape

On Saturday evening, Ist inst... twomen, AW J. MeCall,
a barrister. and T. English, a constable, arrived at Mus
kegon, Mieh. from Brussels, county of Huron, Ontario

| perjury.

PERFFAONE Stengthens, Enlarges and Develops any

* as *

They were armed with a warrant from the Queen’s Court
of that county for the arrest of John Miller, charged with
Our extradition treaty not covering that par-
ticular offense, their evident intent was to gidnap their
man and run him oft. The arrest was made; under their

| warrant late that night, and the ofticer not daring to take

his man to jail, slept with him for safety. On the Sunday
morning following, Miller sent for an attorney, who at
once demanded the warrant on which the prisoner
was held. This was at first refused, and Miller, by
the advice of his attorney, walked away. The barrister
soon found a justice of the peace, who-was a former res-
ident of Ontario, who issued a warrant based on a com-
plaint for perjury committed in Canada. This was served by
an officer who was formerly from Canada, and the justice
refused to admit the prisoner to bail. He was afterward
admitted to bail by another Justice, and the matter con-
tinued until the 3rd, when counter warrants were
issued for the bold Canadiaus for false imprisonment.
These were to be served after the examination, but before
the appointed time the kidnappers had packed their
grip-sacks and stolen away.

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